Patent ID: 11972091
Assignee: SAP SE
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A system, comprising:
one or more computers; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage device coupled to the one or more computers and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computer, cause the one or more computers to perform operations for traversing associative software objects, the operations comprising:
presenting, in a graphical user interface (GUI), a workdesk comprising three viewports, wherein a first viewport displays an active application, a second viewport displays a toolbar comprising one or more icons indicating applications that are available for interactions by one or more cross-application tools, and a third viewport displays a toolbar comprising the one or more cross-application tools;
receiving a selection of a cross-application tool in the third viewport;
performing an action associated with the selected cross-application tool within at least one of the one or more indicated applications;
overlaying a result of the action in the first viewport;
receiving a selection of two or more icons from the second viewport;
in response to receiving the selection of two or more icons in the second viewport, displaying each selected application in the first viewport, wherein the first viewport is dynamically partitioned based on the number of icons that are selected;

receiving a selection of a first object in a first selected application;
performing a search associated with the first object in a second selected application based on the selection of the first object in the first selected application; and
updating a presentation of the second selected application based on the search.