US 2019/0294687 A1 · SMART VERSIONING FOR FILES

Abstract

A system enabling smart versioning of files is provided. Techniques disclosed herein enable a system to snap to new versions of a file based on one or more measures of user interactions with the file. For instance, a system can create a new version number for a file based on an amount of time a user has spent editing the file, a number of saves that have occurred, and/or a quantity of data applied to edits of the file. The techniques disclosed herein can also utilize telemetry data to fine tune weightings that are applied to data measuring specific types user activity to provide results that best serve a range of use scenarios and file types. By providing version numbers of a file that are based on user interactions, a system can provide more meaningful version numbers that are aligned with the contents of a file.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving metadata defining user activity associated with a file, the metadata defining at least one of a quantity of data applied to edits of the file, a number of saves applied to the file, or an amount of time applied to edits of the file;
determining, for one or more iterations of the file, that at least one of the quantity of data applied to the edits of the file, the number of saves applied to the file, or the amount of time applied to edits of the file reaches one or more thresholds;
in response to determining, for the one or more iterations of the file, that at least one of the quantity of data applied to the edits of the file, the number of saves applied to the file, or the amount of time applied to edits of the file reaches the one or more thresholds, determining a version number for the one or more iterations of the file;
and
associating the version number with the one or more iterations of the file.

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A system comprising:

one or more processing units;
and
a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the one or more processing units to execute a method comprising
receiving metadata defining user activity associated with a file, the metadata defining at least one of a quantity of data applied to edits of the file, a number of saves applied to the file, or an amount of time applied to edits of the file;
determining, for one or more iterations of the file, that at least one of the quantity of data applied to the edits of the file, the number of saves applied to the file, or the amount of time applied to edits of the file exceeds one or more thresholds;
in response to determining that at least one of the quantity of data applied to the edits of the file, the number of saves applied to the file, or the amount of time applied to edits of the file exceeds the one or more thresholds, determining a version number for the one or more iterations of the file;
associating the version number with the one or more iterations of the file;
selecting a first subset of iterations of the one or more iterations of the file, wherein the first subset includes a most recently saved iteration;
and
selecting a second subset of iterations of the one or more iterations of the file for short-term storage, wherein the second subset of iterations is marked for deletion the purposes of freeing storage space on one or more storage devices.

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A computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause one or more processing units of a computing device to execute a method comprising

receiving metadata defining at least one measure of user activity associated with a file;
determining, for one or more iterations of the file, that the at least one measure of user activity reaches one or more thresholds;
in response to determining, for the one or more iterations of the file, that the at least one measure of user activity reaches the one or more thresholds, determining a version number for the one or more iterations of the file;
and
associating the version number with the one or more iterations of the file.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Smart versioning for files

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