Patent ID: 7447699
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of displaying heterogeneous information, comprising: executing an application program to process one or more activities, each activity comprising information nuggets comprised of information components written in Java language and use Java classes to implement business logic, and next step links, each information nugget extracted from one or more heterogeneous information sources, each next step link associated with one or more information nuggets; selecting one of the activities; displaying at least one information nugget of the selected activity in a first region of a graphical user interface; and displaying at least one next step link associated with the displayed information nugget in a second region of the graphical user interface, wherein the information, wherein the information components consist of three Java classes, wherein the three Java classes are i) an input parameter class, which encapsulates information available to the information components when executing, ii) a Java class, comprised of the information components containing code to connect and to get information from a data source and iii) an output parameter class, which encapsulates information that is available for display and to pass to other nuggets or an activity after the information component has executed.