Patent ID: 8498985

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: modifying a first document in a first source application at a user interface component at a first time, and modifying a second document in second source application at the user interface component at a second time; developing criteria data based on monitoring the activity of modifying the first and second documents, the criteria data based on one of related words, keywords or forms related by a predefined process; decomposing a plurality of different types of documents from corresponding different types of applications into a document data catalog according to one or more document templates, the one or more document templates defining a structure of data elements of the plurality of different types of documents; accessing the document data catalog for the first and second documents based on monitoring the activity of modifying the first and second documents, respectively, the document data catalog for the first and second documents including: first and second correlated data elements with respect to the first and second documents from the plurality of different types of documents as defined by the one or more document templates, and first and second element metadata with respect to the first and second documents for each of the first and second correlated data elements that is based on past user interaction with the respective first and second correlated data elements; automatically selecting, from the document data catalog for the first document, one or more first correlated data elements based on the criteria data, and for the second document one or more second correlated data elements based on the criteria data; automatically selecting, from a data source, one or more first additional data elements related to the one or more first correlated data elements relevant to the monitoring the activity of modifying the first document based on the first element metadata, and one or more second additional data elements related to the one or more second correlated data elements relevant to the monitoring the activity of modifying the second document based on the second element metadata; displaying proximate to the first time, at the user interface component, in conjunction with the first document in the first source application the one or more first correlated data elements and the one or more first additional data elements; and displaying proximate to the second time, at the user interface component, in conjunction with the second document in the second source application the one or more first and second correlated data elements and the one or more first and second additional data elements.