US Patent 10048854 Drag and drop interaction between components of a web application

A user of a web application can perform a drag and drop operation from a first component of the web application to a second component of the web application. The drag and drop operation can include three actions. The first action can be initializing a drag of an object within a first component of a web application. The second action can be dragging the object from within the first component over a drop target located within a second component of the web application. The third action can be dropping the object onto the drop target located within the second component of the web application. One of the first and second components can be a web component, and the other component can be a visualization component. The first and second components of the web application can communicate with each other using a communication component of the web application.