US 2012/0239658 A1Published application

Hierarchical structured abstract data organization system

AssigneeIllinois Institute of Technology

InventorsOphir Frieder, Sanjiv Kapoor

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Abstract

A method in a data processing system and apparatus for organizing files, web pages, or web site members organized in a traditional first hierarchical file structure that is on a recordable medium of a data processing system. A user-defined metalabel is assigned to each of the electronic files, web pages, or web site members. The electronic files, web pages, or web site members are organized as a function of the metalabels into a second hierarchical file structure existing simultaneously with the first hierarchical file structure on the recordable medium of the data processing system. The files, web pages, or web site members can be organized or grouped by the metalabels for efficient searching or following conversations of group members on social networking sites.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for organizing files, web pages, or web site members, the method comprising:

assigning a user-defined metalabel to each of a plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members with a data processor to organize the each of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members into a plurality of hierarchical files structures;
assigning a plurality of user-defined metalabels to each of at least two of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members with a data processor;
the data processor automatically organizing each of the at least two of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members into at least two of the plurality of hierarchical files structures;
wherein:
each of the user-defined metalabels is an identifier in addition to a filename, a domain address, or a member identification of each of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members,
and more than one of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members is assigned a same user-defined metalabel to organize the more than one of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members in a same hierarchical file structure;
storing each of the plurality of user-defined metalabels in a database associated with the data processor;
and
the data processor automatically linking each of the plurality of user-defined metalabels stored in the database to a corresponding electronic file, web page, or web site member of the each of the plurality of user-defined metalabels.

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A computer-implemented method of organizing a plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members organized in a first hierarchical file structure on a recordable medium of a network by a filename, domain address, or a member identification, the method comprising:

assigning with a data processor a plurality of metalabels defined by a user to each of at least two of a plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members;
the data processor automatically organizing each of the electronic files, web pages, or web site members as a function of the metalabels into a plurality of additional hierarchical file structures existing simultaneously with the first hierarchical file structure, wherein more than one of the at least two plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members is assigned a same user-defined metalabel to organize the more than one of the plurality of electronic files, web pages, or web site members in a same hierarchical file structure;
and
storing the plurality of additional hierarchical file structures on the recordable medium or a second recordable medium associated with the data processor;
and
the data processor automatically linking each of the plurality of user-defined metalabels stored on the recordable medium or the second recordable medium to a corresponding electronic file, web page, or web site member of the each of the plurality of user-defined metalabels.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/486,630Filed 1 Jun 2012
Priority: 9 May 2007
Published: 20 Sep 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06F 16/22
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/14
File systems; File servers: details of searching files based on file metadata
G06F
Computing and data processing

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