Tagged management of stored items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9836472-B2
Application number	US-201313909965-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 4, 2013
Priority date	Jun 4, 2013
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

In one embodiment, non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions for implementing tagged management of stored items, wherein an embodiment can receive an input indicating the selection of a graphical representation of a file in the GUI of an operating system, and can also receive an input indicating the intent to attach a tag to the file. The system can perform an automatic search through the metadata of files associated with the user and the user account to find the set of files having the tag, responsive to the request to display the set of files. Having located the set of files, an operation can be performed to display the set of files having the requested tag, regardless of the storage location of the files.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method at a data processing system comprising:
receiving, at the data processing system used by a first user, an electronic transfer of a first file from a second user having at least one tag created by the second user, wherein the at least one tag was manually assigned to the first file by the second user;
adding the at least one tag created by the second user to a metadata database of tags available to the first user, while distinguishing the at least one tag created by the second user from tags created by the first user in the metadata database based on the identity of the second user;
detecting a first input by the first user to modify one or more tags associated with a second file different from the first file;
in response to detecting the first input by the first user, displaying a tag interface for modifying the one or more tags associated with the second file, wherein the tag interface includes the at least one tag created by the second user and one or more tags created by the user;
detecting a second input by the first user selecting the at least one tag created by the second user from the tag interface to the second file; and
in response to detecting the second input by the first user:
associating the second file with the at least one tag created by the second user; and
adding the at least one tag created by the second user to a sidebar portion of a graphical user interface (GUI) window.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one tag created by the second user is presented in a set of autocomplete options in the tag user interface.

3. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors on a data processing system, cause the data processing system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at the data processing system used by a first user, an electronic transfer of a first file from a second user having at least one tag created by the second user, wherein the at least one tag was manually assigned to the first file by the second user;
adding the at least one tag created by the second user to a metadata database of tags available to the first user, while distinguishing the at least one tag created by the second user from tags created by the first user in the metadata database based on the identity of the second user;
detecting a first input by the first user to modify one or more tags associated with a second file different from the first file;
in response to detecting the first input by the first user, displaying a tag interface for modifying the one or more tags associated with the second file, wherein the tag interface includes the at least one tag created by the second user and one or more tags created by the user;
detecting a second input by the first user selecting the at least one tag created by the second user from the tag interface to the second file; and
in response to detecting the second input by the first user:
associating the second file with the at least one tag created by the second user; and
adding the at least one tag created by the second user to a sidebar portion of a graphical user interface (GUI) window.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the at least one tag created by the second user is presented in a set of autocomplete options in the tag user interface.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one tag created by the second user is not displayed within the sidebar portion of the GUI window prior to detecting the second input by the first user.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising, displaying the GUI window that includes the sidebar portion and a plurality of file representations associated with a plurality of files in a first region of the GUI window, wherein each of the plurality of file representations is associated with one or more tags, and wherein display of each of the plurality of file representations includes a corresponding file name.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 6 , wherein displaying the GUI window further includes displaying a plurality of graphical representations of tags corresponding to a first file representation of the plurality of file representations in the first region of the GUI window proximate to the first file representation, wherein a first one of the plurality of graphical representations of tags corresponds to the at least one tag created by the second user.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein a second one of the plurality of graphical representations of tags corresponds to a second tag different from the at least one tag created by the second user.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of graphical representations of tags corresponding to the first file includes a stack of icons, and wherein the stack of icons is indicative of a count of the tags associated with the first file.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the tag interface further includes one or more tags currently associated with the second file and a suggested list of one or more tags, wherein the tag interface enables the addition of one or more tags to the second file in a text-entry-based manner, and wherein each of the one or more tags currently associated with the second file and the suggested list of one or more tags in the tag interface is associated with a graphical representation and a text representation.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the at least one tag corresponds to one of the one or more tags in the tag interface, and the second input by the first user corresponds to selection of the at least one tag from among the one or more tags in the tag interface.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein tag interface further includes one or more actions for performance on the second file, wherein the tag interface enables the addition of one or more tags to the second file in an icon-selection-based manner, and wherein each of the one or more tags in the tag interface is associated with a graphical representation.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 12 , wherein the at least one tag corresponds to one of the one or more tags in the tag interface, and the second input by the first user corresponds to selection of the at least one tag from among the one or more tags in the tag interface.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the at least one tag created by the second user is not displayed within the sidebar portion of the GUI window prior to detecting the second input by the first user.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the instructions cause the data processing system to perform operations further comprising, displaying the GUI window that includes the sidebar portion and a plurality of file representations associated with a plurality of files in a first region of the GUI window, wherein each of the plurality of file representations is associated with one or more tags, and wherein display of each of the plurality of file representations includes a corresponding file name.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein displaying the GUI window further includes displaying a plurality of graphical representations of tags corresponding to a first file representation of the plurality of file representations in the first region of the GUI window proximate to the first file representation, wherein a first one of the plurality of

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Cisler Pavel
• Arrouye Yan
• Baumann Laurent
• Vandereyken Loic
• Hornkvist John
• Ozer Ali

Classifications

• G06F16/168 Primary

  Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs (query results presentation G06F16/156) · CPC title

• G06F16/144

  Query formulation · CPC title

• G06F17/30126 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30103

  Physics · mapped topic