Advanced search, file system, and intelligent assistant agent
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- building, in addition to a file-folder organization structure, at least one relational organization structure of a plurality of files in one or more processing devices based on one or more relationships among the files;
providing a user interface that allows a user to choose one or more organization structures from a first set of organization structures that includes the at least one relational organization structure and the file-folder organization structure; and
providing one or more paths for locating a file in the one or more organization structures from the first set of organization structures.
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Abstract
The present invention presents embodiments of methods, systems, and computer-readable media for advanced computer file organization, computer file and web search and information retrieval, and intelligent assistant agent to assist a user'"'"'s creative activities. The embodiments presented herein categorize search results based on the keywords used in the search, provide user selectable ranking, use user'"'"'s search objectives and advices to refine search, conduct search within an application program and using a file based, provide always-on search that monitors changes over a period of time, provide a high level file system that organizes files into categories, according to relations among files, and in ranking orders along multiple categorization and ranking dimensions and multiple levels of conceptual relationships, conduct searches for associations between keywords, concepts, and propositions, and provide validations of such associations to assist a user'"'"'s creative activity.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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building, in addition to a file-folder organization structure, at least one relational organization structure of a plurality of files in one or more processing devices based on one or more relationships among the files;
providing a user interface that allows a user to choose one or more organization structures from a first set of organization structures that includes the at least one relational organization structure and the file-folder organization structure; and
providing one or more paths for locating a file in the one or more organization structures from the first set of organization structures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method comprising:
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observing one or more applications or one or more users'"'"' activities on one or more processing devices over a period of time; and
performing one or more of the following based on the observation;
creating a first summary of contents of the one or more users'"'"' activities in the period of time;
organizing, by at least a first relational organization structure, the contents of the information entities or the information entities which are involved with the one or more applications or with the one or more users'"'"' activities in the period of time;
indexing the information entities or the contents of the information entities which are involved with the one or more applications or which the one or more users'"'"' activities in the period of time;
providing a user interface for searching the information entities or the contents of the information entities which are involved with the one or more applications or the one or more users'"'"' activities in the period of time; and
building and recording one or more links between at least a first information or information entity and a second information or information entity. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method comprising:
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extracting one or more first association elements from one or more information entities;
finding one or more second association elements; and
validating whether there is an association between the one or more second association elements and the one or more first association elements. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 18, 19, 20)
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- 16. The method of 13, furthering comprising ranking one or more pairs of association between the first and the second association element.
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