Patent ID: 9137307
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a generic application programming interface using a network accessible computer processor, a request signal comprising one or more simultaneous request for searching all files, or selected files comprising one or more predetermined features, from among a plurality of files stored in one or more devices and created using two or more applications; determining if said request signal, or a part of said request signal, is absent application-specific information, said generic application programing interface further configured to perform: searching for and detecting application meta data for said all files, or said selected files; reading each of said all files, or said selected files, and converting said request signal absent application-specific information, or said part of the request signal absent application-specific information, to one or more application command signals comprising said application-specific information derived from application meta data and combined responses of raw application file information corresponding to said all files, or said selected files, each signal of said one or more application command signals defining a corresponding application command for one application of said two or more applications, and providing said one or more application command signals concurrently to corresponding one or more application connectors within said generic application programming interface for concurrently performing one or more of the following: