Patent ID: 7996450
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: displaying a user interface for a web application, the user interface displayed in a web browser at a client computer, the user interface including a form having fields for receiving content for use by the web application, the web application executing on a server that is remote from the client computer; displaying, within a browser window of the user interface, representations of resources stored at a remote storage system, the remote storage system being remote from the client computer and remote from the server; in response to receiving a selection of one of the representations of the resources stored at the remote storage system, obtaining, by the client computer, an identifier associated with a file corresponding to the selection, the file being a resource stored at the remote storage system, the client computer obtaining the identifier from the remote storage system, the identifier enabling the web application to directly pull contents of the file from the remote storage system to the server without storing the file on the client computer; and forwarding, to the web application, the identifier associated with the file.