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US 9,519,399 B1Granted
Providing a visual indication that stored content is associated with a collaboration environment
AssigneeEMC Corporation
InventorsAndrew Goodale, Andrew Kleppner
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Abstract
Providing visual indication that an item of content is associated with a collaboration environment is disclosed. It is determined that a set of content items comprising one or more items of content comprising a body of managed content are to be displayed to a user. In the event that a collaboration content item included in the set of content items is associated with a collaboration environment of which the user is a member, visual indication is provided that the content item is associated with the collaboration environment.
Claims17
A method for displaying a plurality of items of content to a user in icon form, comprising:
- determining that a first and a second content item in a set of content items comprising a body of managed content are to be displayed to the user in icon form;
- determining that the first content item in the set is a general content item that is not associated with any collaboration environment;
- determining that the second content item is a collaboration content item associated with at least a first collaboration environment of which the user is a member;
- incorporating, into an icon for the second content item determined to be associated with the first collaboration environment, a first visual indication that indicates the second content item is associated with the first collaboration environment and is not a general content item, wherein the first visual indication includes at least one addition to a standard icon used to represent general content items, and wherein the addition identifies the first collaboration environment;
- displaying the standard icon for the first content item, wherein the standard icon indicates that the first content item is a general content item not exclusively owned by any collaboration environment;
- and
- displaying the icon for the second content item that comprises the first visual indication indicating that the second content item is associated with the first collaboration environment.
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A computer program product for displaying a plurality of items of content to a user in icon form, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- determining that a first and a second content item in a set of content items comprising a body of managed content are to be displayed to the user in icon form;
- determining that the first content item in the set is a general content item that is not associated with any collaboration environment;
- determining that the second content item is a collaboration content item associated with at least a first collaboration environment of which the user is a member;
- incorporating, into an icon for the second content item determined to be associated with the first collaboration environment, a first visual indication that indicates the second content item is associated with the first collaboration environment and is not a general content item, wherein the first visual indication includes at least one addition to a standard icon used to represent general content items, and wherein the addition identifies the first collaboration environment;
- displaying the standard icon for the first content item, wherein the standard icon indicates that the first content item is a general content item not exclusively owned by any collaboration environment;
- and
- displaying the icon for the second content item that comprises the first visual indication indicating that the second content item is associated with the first collaboration environment.
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A system for displaying a plurality of items of content to a user in icon form, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to:
- determine that a first and a second content item in a set of content items comprising a body of managed content are to be displayed to the user in icon form;
- determine that the first content item in the set is a general content item that is not associated with any collaboration environment;
- determine that the second content item is a collaboration content item associated with at least a first collaboration environment of which the user is a member;
- incorporate, into an icon for the second content item determined to be associated with the first collaboration environment, a first visual indication that indicates the second content item is associated with the first collaboration environment and is not a general content item, wherein the first visual indication includes at least one addition to a standard icon used to represent general content items, and wherein the addition identifies the first collaboration environment;
- display the standard icon for the first content item, wherein the standard icon indicates that the first content item is a general content item not exclusively owned by any collaboration environment;
- and
- display the icon for the second content item that comprises the first visual indication indicating that the second content item is associated with the first collaboration environment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.