Suggesting a destination folder for a file to be saved

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11093447-B2
Application number	US-201816206556-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2018
Priority date	Nov 30, 2018
Publication date	Aug 17, 2021
Grant date	Aug 17, 2021

Abstract

A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes determining a starting folder within a file system, computing, for each child folder of the starting folder, a similarity metric indicating a level of similarity to a file, selecting two child folders of the starting folder having greatest similarity metrics, comparing a difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders to a predetermined threshold, and conditionally selecting the starting folder as a recommended folder to which the file is saved, based on the comparing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
determining a starting folder within a file system;
computing, for each child folder of the starting folder, a similarity metric indicating a level of similarity to a file;
selecting two child folders of the starting folder having greatest similarity metrics;
comparing a difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders to a predetermined threshold;
selecting the starting folder as a recommended folder to which the file is saved in response to determining that the difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders is less than the predetermined threshold; and
selecting one of the two child folders having the greatest similarity metric in response to determining that the difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders is greater than the predetermined threshold.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the starting folder is determined in response to identifying a request to save the file within the file system.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the starting folder is determined based on contextual information, the contextual information including:
a location associated with a saving of a file,
a time associated with the saving of the file,
an application used associated with the saving of the file,
a device associated with the saving of the file,
a network associated with the saving of the file, and
a user associated with the saving of the file.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the starting folder includes a top-most folder within a file system.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the starting folder is manually selected by a user.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising, in response to determining that the starting folder has only a single child folder, selecting the single child folder as an updated starting folder.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the similarity metric is computed by comparing a language model created for a file to a language model created for each child folder of the starting folder.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein each child folder of the starting folder includes a language model stored as metadata for the child folder.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein for each child folder of the starting folder, the similarity metric includes a numerical value indicating a level of similarity between the child folder and a file.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the two child folders of the starting folder having the greatest similarity metrics includes:
comparing a value for the similarity metric for each of the child folders of the starting folder, and
identifying two child folders of the starting folder having a similarity metric greater than similarity metrics of the remaining child folders,
wherein a larger similarity metric indicates a greater level of similarity to the file.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a language model for each child folder of the starting folder, including for each child folder:
identifying as tokens all words within files within the child folder, all words within any additional child folders of the child folder, and all terms within metadata associated with the child folder and any additional child folders of the child folder,
aggregating all of the tokens to create a language model for the child folder,
where the language model includes a count for each of the tokens that is representative of a number of instances of the token within the child folder and any additional child folders of the child folder;
wherein the similarity metric is computed by comparing the language model created for the file to the language model for each child folder.

12. A computer program product for suggesting a destination folder for a file to be saved, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
determining a starting folder within a file system, utilizing the processor;
computing, for each child folder of the starting folder, a similarity metric indicating a level of similarity to the file, utilizing the processor;
selecting two child folders of the starting folder having greatest similarity metrics, utilizing the processor;
comparing a difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders to a predetermined threshold, utilizing the processor;
selecting, utilizing the processor, the starting folder as a recommended folder to which the file is saved in response to determining that the difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders is less than the predetermined threshold; and
selecting, utilizing the processor, one of the two child folders having the greatest similarity metric in response to determining that the difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders is greater than the predetermined threshold.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the starting folder is determined in response to identifying a request to save the file within the file system.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the starting folder is determined based on contextual information, the contextual information selected from a group consisting of:
a location associated with a saving of a file,
a time associated with the saving of the file,
an application used associated with the saving of the file,
a device associated with the saving of the file,
a network associated with the saving of the file, and
a user associated with the saving of the file.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the starting folder includes a top-most folder within a file system.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the starting folder is manually selected by a user.

17. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising, in response to determining that the starting folder has only a single child folder, selecting the single child folder as an updated starting folder.

18. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the similarity metric is computed by comparing a language model created for a file to a language model created for each child folder of the starting folder.

19. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein each child folder of the starting folder includes a language model stored as metadata for the child folder.

20. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor, the logic being configured to:
determine a starting folder within a file system;
compute, for each child folder of the starting folder, a similarity metric indicating a level of similarity to a file;
select two child folders of the starting folder having greatest similarity metrics;
compare a difference between the greatest similarity metrics of the two child folders to a predetermined threshold;
select the starting folder as a recommended folder to which the file is saved in response to determining that the differ

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Lee Sunhwan
• Jiang Shun
• Moore Robert J
• Ren Guangjie
• Arar Raphael I

Classifications

• G06F40/194 Primary

  Calculation of difference between files · CPC title

• G06F40/205

  Parsing · CPC title

• G06F40/284

  Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates · CPC title

• G06F16/148

  File search processing · CPC title

• G06F16/156 Primary

  Query results presentation · CPC title