US 8,495,025 B2 · Foldering by stable query

Abstract

Instead of adding resources into a folder by specifying a list of identifiers, client applications add resources to a folder by specifying a search query that matches the resources to be added. The virtual folder is, therefore, a collection of search queries rather than a collection of resource identifiers. This allows the data archive systems to easily store folder information in a database. A client application can then search by specifying the folder as its search criteria to list all content associated with the folder. Additionally, to ensure that the list of results associated with a particular query does not change after the query is added into a folder, the data archive system also captures generation information associated with the particular query (i.e., the iteration of the search indexes at the time the query is received) and stores the generation information with the query as part of the folder.

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Dependent claims

In a computerized device of a data archive system, a method of foldering a query, comprising:

receiving, by the computerized device, a query from a user device, the query relating to a set of assets stored by the data archive system;
retrieving, by the computerized device, a generation identifier that identifies a state of the set of assets of the data archive system at the time the query is received by,
retrieving generation information associated with an iteration of an index associated with each search node of a set of search nodes of the data archive system;
and
combining the generation information of each search node to generate the generation identifier that identifies the state of the set of assets of the data archive system;
and
storing, by the computerized device, the query associated with the set of assets stored by the data archive system and the generation identifier that identifies the state of the set of assets in a virtual folder.

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A computerized device of a data archive system, comprising:

at least one communications interface;
and a controller electrically coupled to the at least one communications interface wherein the controller is to:
receive a query from a user device, the query relating to a set of assets stored by the data archive system;
retrieve a generation identifier that identifies a state of the set of assets of the data archive system at the time the query is received through,
retrieval of generation information associated with an iteration of an index associated with each search node of a set of search nodes of the data archive system;
and
combination of the generation information of each search node to generate the generation identifier that identifies the state of the set of assets of the data archive system;
and
store the query associated with the set of assets stored by the data archive system and the generation identifier that identifies the state of the set of assets in a virtual folder.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Foldering by stable query

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Abstract

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