Method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer system
First Claim
1. A method for organizing information in a computer filing system having a display device and a first plurality of documents, said method comprising:
- providing a graphical representation of a first document and a graphical representation of a second document from said first plurality of documents;
creating a collection of documents comprising a second plurality of documents having said first document and said second document;
displaying a graphical representation of said collection of documents on said display device;
viewing at least one of the documents in said collection by displaying an indicia of said at least one document.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the users request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system. The filing system can also create a pile from a sample document by using the internal representation of the document as the internal representation of the new pile. The computer filing system provides various interfaces in connection with piles to the user of the system to provide feedback and other information to the user, including information concerning the documents and piles in the computer'"'"'s filing system.
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72 Claims
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1. A method for organizing information in a computer filing system having a display device and a first plurality of documents, said method comprising:
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providing a graphical representation of a first document and a graphical representation of a second document from said first plurality of documents;
creating a collection of documents comprising a second plurality of documents having said first document and said second document;
displaying a graphical representation of said collection of documents on said display device;
viewing at least one of the documents in said collection by displaying an indicia of said at least one document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70, 71, 72)
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37. A method for organizing information in a computer system having a display device, said method comprising:
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providing a representation of a first document and a representation of a second document;
creating a collection of documents comprising said first and said second documents;
displaying a representation of said collection of documents;
determining a representation of said collection when a third document is added to said collection based on one of;
(a) an internal representation of each of the documents in said collection, and (b) a user defined specification.
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66. A computer filing system for organizing information in a computer system having a processor, a bus, and memory for storing information including a plurality of documents, said computer filing system comprising:
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a display means for producing a display of graphical representations, said display means coupled to said processor;
a cursor control means coupled to said processor, said cursor control means for controlling the position of a cursor on said display;
a switch means for indicating a selection of an object displayed on said display, said switch means coupled to said processor and having a first and a second position;
a graphical representation of a first document and a graphical representation of a second document, said cursor control means and said switch means being used with said graphical representations of said first and said second documents to create a collection of documents comprising said first and said second documents;
a means for creating a graphical representation of said collection of documents comprising said first and said second document; and
a means for determining a representation of said collection, said means for determining providing a representation based on an internal representation of said first and said second documents. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69)
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