Selection based container listing

• US 20060074928A1
• Filed: 09/28/2004
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: MacLaurin, Matthew B., Turski, Andrzej
• Application Number:
  US10/951,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20060074928A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A file system user interface (UI) which facilitates selecting groups of files and automatically persisting the selection to a data store is provided. A UI preview pane can provide a dynamic list preview as the items are selected. More particularly, as the user builds a multiple selection of files, the dynamic list preview pane can display a visual depiction (e.g., stack). As the user selects each additional document, the stack grows taller and can show, as its top page, a representation of the most-recently selected document. At any point, the user can click on the list preview and the system will create a new collection object that holds or refers to all the selected items. This collection can be automatically persisted into the local store and given a default name that the user can later change.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates creating a data container, the system comprising:

a selection component that facilitates compiling a collection associated with one or more data components; and

a container generation component that automatically generates a container that represents the collection.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a preview component that dynamically displays the collection as each of the one or more data components are compiled.

3. The system of claim 2, the container generation component automatically generates the container in response to a trigger.

4. The system of claim 1, at least one of the one or more data components is an electronic file.

5. The system of claim 1, at least one of the one or more data components is a link.

6. The system of claim 1, at least one of the one or more data components is a disparate container.

7. The system of claim 1, the container is a list having a link to each of the one or more data components.

8. The system of claim 1, the container is a folder that includes a copy of each of the one or more data components.

9. The system of claim 1, the container generation component automatically retains the container in a data store.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a rule engine component that automatically instantiates a rule that implements a predefined criteria; and

a rule evaluation component that applies the rule with respect to the one or more data components to instruct the selection component to dynamically select the one or more data components.

11. The system of claim 10, the rule engine component is located remotely from the view selection component.

12. The system of claim 1, the container generation component is remote from the one or more data components.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence component that predicts a user intention as a function of historical user criteria.

14. The system of claim 13, the artificial intelligence component includes an inference component that facilitates automatic selection of the one or more data components as a function of the predicted user intention with respect to a characteristic.

15. The system of claim 14, the inference component employs a utility-based analyses in performing the automatic selection.

16. A desktop computing system that employs the system of claim 1.

17. A portable computing device that employs the system of claim 1.

18. The system of claim 1, further comprising an intelligence component that employs a statistical-based analysis to infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

19. A computer readable medium having stored thereon the components of claim 1.

20. A method of organizing data, the method comprising:

selecting one or more data components within a file system;

assembling a collection from the selected one or more data components; and

automatically generating a container that represents the collection.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising dynamically generating a preview of the collection as each of the one or more data components are assembled.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising triggering the generation of the collection.

23. The method of claim 20, at least one of the one or more data components is a data file.

24. The method of claim 20, at least one of the one or more data components is a link.

25. The method of claim 20, at least one of the one or more data components is a disparate container.

26. The method of claim 20, the act of automatically generating the container further comprises linking the collection to each of the one or more selected data components.

27. The method of claim 20, further comprising automatically storing the container in a data store.

28. The method of claim 20, further comprising applying a rule that dynamically determines the selection of the one or more data components.

29. The method of claim 20, further comprising predicting a user intention that determines the selection of the one or more data components.

30. A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for carrying out the method of claim 20.

31. A system that facilitates organizing data, the system comprising:

means for selecting a subset of a file system, the subset having one or more data elements;

means for dynamically previewing the selected subset of the file system; and

means for automatically generating a container associated with the selected subset of the file system.

32. The system of claim 31, the means for selecting is a rule-based operation.

33. The system of claim 31, the means for selecting is an artificial intelligence operation.

34. The system of claim 31, further comprising means for automatically storing the container in a data store.

35. A system that facilitates managing data, the system comprising:

a selection component that generates a stack, the stack includes a plurality of data components;

a preview component that dynamically displays the stack as each of the plurality of data components are added to the stack; and

a container generation component that automatically generates a container that represents the stack.

36. The system of claim 35, the container is a list that points to each of the plurality of data components.

37. The system of claim 35, the container is a folder that includes a copy of each of the plurality of data components.

38. The system of claim 35, further comprising:

a rule engine component that automatically instantiates a rule that implements a predefined criteria; and

a rule evaluation component that applies the rule with respect to the one or more data components to instruct the selection component to dynamically select the one or more data components.

39. The system of claim 35, the artificial intelligence component includes an inference component that facilitates automatic selection of the one or more data components as a function of the predicted user intention with respect to a characteristic.

40. A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for carrying out the system of claim 35.