Patent ID: 9336332
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for batch-generating information abstracts to provide a unified framework for managing data assets from a plurality of different software applications, the method performed under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, the method comprising: receiving from a user, in a programmatic manner, one or more requests to connect to the plurality of different software applications executing remotely from the one or more computer systems, each of the plurality of different software applications associated with one or more respective data assets; for each respective data asset of each of the plurality of different software applications: determining that a modified data asset has been modified; sending to the user an event notification indicating that the modified data asset was modified, the event notification operable to update a chronological feed displayed on a user device, the chronological feed providing a chronological view of activities related to the respective data assets of the plurality of different software applications; receiving from the user a selection of an interactive link from the chronological feed, the interactive link associated with a first data asset of a first software application of the plurality of different software applications; identifying a second data asset associated with the first data asset, the second data asset associated with a second software application of the plurality of different software applications; and sending to the user a first visually-representable information abstract of the first data asset in response to the selection of the interactive link, the first visually-representable information abstract comprising: the respective metadata associated with the first data asset; and an access modality enabling the user to access a second visually-representable information abstract corresponding to the second data asset.