DESK-TOP, STREAM-BASED, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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Abstract
A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the documents to automatically create a main stream in chronological order. The stream, or sub-streams meeting selected search criteria, are displayed in a variety of forms, including a receding, partly overlapping stack with aids that facilitate user interaction.
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method of operating a computer system comprising:
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providing the computer system with documents in respective formats according to respective different applications through which the provided documents are generated or modified, which formats differ from one of the document to another for at least some of said provided documents, said provided documents being delivered to the computer system or generated by the computer system; storing at least some of the documents provided to the computer system in computer storage; said computer system being configured to automatically generate and store in computer storage respective representations related to the documents provided thereto, thereby forming a main collection of document representations; said computer automatically generating and storing said main collection of document representations without requiring a user to designate a directory structure, a physical location for storage of document representations or corresponding documents, or another pre-imposed document categorization structure for each of said document representations or documents; said automatically generated and stored document representations being in a consistent format despite differences in format from one to another of the documents corresponding thereto; said automatically generated and stored representations of said documents including respective automatically generated time indicators associated with the documents corresponding to said representations; said automatically generated and stored representations of said documents further including respective automatically generated information relating the document representation to the respective documents provided to and stored in said computer system; said automatically generated and stored main collection of document representations being unbounded in time and size and being configured to include documents associated with time indicators related to future times as well as to past and present times; said automatically generated and stored main collection of document representations requiring no fixed beginning or end and being non-transitory and selectively searchable by the computer system; providing selected search criteria; causing said computer system to perform a first search of at least said main collection of document representations according to selected first search criteria, to provide first search results, and to utilize said first search results to generate a first sub-collection of document representations related to a respective sub-collection of the documents provided to the computer system; selectively causing the computer system to display on a computer screen graphical depictions of only a first portion of said first sub-collection of document representations generated by utilizing said first search results, said first portion corresponding to only a portion of the documents provided to and stored in the computer system; said first portion of said first document sub-collection of document representations corresponding to a multi-document portion of the documents provided to and stored in said computer system; said computer system being configured to maintain at least one of said the main collection of document representations and said first sub-collection of document automatically responsive to events subsequent to the providing of said first search results such that additional document representations corresponding to additional documents provided to the computer system subsequent to an initial display of said first portion of the first sub-collection of document representations and meeting said selected search criteria are automatically included in a subsequent display of graphical depictions of one or more portions of said first sub-collection of document representations; said additional document representations also including automatically generated respective time indicators associated with the documents subsequently provided to the computer system; automatically showing on the computer screen a display of a glance view of a displayed document depiction while continuing to show on the screen plural displayed graphical depictions of respective plural document representations; said glance view being an abbreviated version of the document corresponding to the graphical depiction and being indicative of content thereof; and said showing of the glance view occurring in response to a user designating a displayed document representation by interacting with a screen area currently associated with the graphical depiction, without requiring the user to click on the designated screen area in order to enable such showing of the glance view.
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Current AssigneeMirror Worlds, LLC
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Original AssigneeMirror Worlds, LLC
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InventorsPRAGER, Randy, Marcaurele, Stephen, Freeman, Eric, Gelernter, David, Sparago, Peter
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Granted Patent
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Time in Patent OfficeDays
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Field of Search
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US Class Current707/737
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CPC Class CodesG06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces ...G06F 16/192 Implementing virtual folder...G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual dat...G06F 16/93 Document management systemsY10S 707/914 VideoY10S 707/916 AudioY10S 707/917 TextY10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or opti...Y10S 707/99937 SortingY10S 707/99943 Generating database or data...
