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US 2013/0097115 A1Published application
Automatic and semi-automatic tagging features of work items in a shared workspace for metadata tracking in a cloud-based content management system with selective or optional user contribution
AssigneeBox,net, Inc.
InventorBrandon Savage
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Abstract
Systems and methods for supporting metadata for work items stored in a web-based content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. Users uploading work items to a folder are not required to provide metadata for the work items. Collaborators of the folder can provide metadata to work items within the folder.
Claims30
A method of implementing metadata in a storage system, the method comprising:
- permitting a user to upload a file to a folder in the storage system without requiring the user to enter metadata for the file;
- requesting collaborators of the folder to optionally provide metadata for the file when the collaborators access the folder;
- and
- enabling the collaborators to access the folder.
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A method of implementing metadata in a storage system, the method comprising:
- permitting an administrator of one or more accounts on the storage system to create a plurality of global metadata attributes to be used in the one or more accounts;
- permitting a first user to create a workspace within one of the one or more accounts in the storage system and select a plurality of workspace metadata attributes from the plurality of global metadata attributes to be applied to every work item uploaded to the workspace;
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- permitting a collaborator of the workspace to upload a work item to the workspace without requiring the collaborator to enter metadata for the selected workspace metadata attributes for the work item.
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A system for implementing metadata in a storage system, the system comprising:
- a metadata request module configured to prompt a user uploading a file to a folder in the storage system to provide metadata for selected attributes associated with the folder, wherein the user is not required to provide the metadata to upload the file;
- and
- a metadata tracker module configured to prompt a collaborator of the folder who accesses the folder to provide missing metadata for the selected attributes for files within the folder,
- wherein the collaborator is not required to provide the missing metadata before accessing the folder.
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A system, comprising:
- means for permitting a user to upload a file to a folder in the storage system without requiring the user to enter metadata for the file;
- and
- means for requesting collaborators of the folder to enter metadata for the file when the collaborators access the folder, wherein collaborators of the folder are not required to provide metadata for the file before accessing the folder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.