Patent ID: 7849175

Claim:
A method comprising: in a portal, generating information views, the information views including control center pages, which represent generic personal resources for a user, the control center pages together forming a control center that represents a personal workspace of the user and including personalized content which reflects common information needs of the user and facilitates control level activities; presenting, in the personal workspace, a first view including at least one task associated with a first workset, wherein the first workset is associated with a first work role of the user, presenting, in the personal workspace, a second view including at least one task associated with a second workset, wherein the second workset is associated with that a second work role of the user, presenting, in the personal workspace, a third view including the at least one task associated with the first workset associated with the first work role of the user and the at least one task associated with the second workset associated with the second work role of the user; presenting a control level page in a first browser session, wherein the control level page includes links to services and objects in an execution level page, and wherein the services and objects correspond to the first workset; presenting the execution level page in a second browser session while maintaining the first browser session; receiving work performed on the execution level page; navigating to the control level page from the execution level page; and navigating back to the execution level page, the execution level page preserving the work performed before said navigating to the control level page.