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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsChaitanya Dev Sareen, Shaheeda Nizar
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Methods, systems and computer products provide for applying metadata to documents and/or document objects in local and/or remote file storage systems. Application of metadata (flags) to documents and/or document objects allows a user to easily locate and utilize flagged items. A single metadata type, such as a colored flag, may be applied to documents or document objects of different file types across a file storage system to which data is stored via different software applications. Documents and/or document objects bearing like flags may be surfaced to a user in a flag summary with which documents and/or document objects may be sorted by flag type. Flagged documents or document objects related to a launched document may be listed in an information pane adjacent to the launched document.
A method of applying metadata to a document for improving subsequent document retrieval, comprising:
A computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer perform a method of applying metadata to a document for improving subsequent document retrieval, comprising:
A computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer perform a method of applying metadata to a document for improving subsequent document retrieval, comprising:
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