Patent ID: 8612880
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: generating, by a system including a processor, a visually persistent desktop element that, regardless of user action, user inaction, and actively running application programs, is continuously visible on a desktop interface of an operating system, wherein the visually persistent desktop element at all times is displayed on top of any actively running application program; interfacing, by the system, the visually persistent desktop element with a document management database, wherein the document management database stores a document based on one of a document description and administrative information; detecting, by the system, from the operating system, an event associated with the visually persistent desktop element that initiates a request to facilitate storing the document to the document management database; identifying, by the system, a source storage location associated with the document based on the event; receiving, by the system, a document type associated with the document, wherein the document type identifies the document; associating, by the system, the document type with a document description, wherein the document description describes the document type; and facilitating, by the system, storing of the document to a destination location on the document management database, wherein the destination location is determined as a function of one of the document type and document description and wherein the document description is one of a sales date time period and a sales agent.