Method and a device for visual management of metadata
First Claim
1. A method for directing a metadata operation at a number of electronically stored data elements in an electronic device having the steps of visualizing an area with a number of data elements on a display device to a user (504), obtaining control information about a user-defined route between user-defined start and end points on the visualized area comprising said number of data elements (508), specifying based on the route such data elements belonging to said number of data elements over which the route passed (512), and performing the metadata operation on said specified data elements (514).
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Abstract
A method and a device for visual management of metadata. An area with a plurality of data elements is visualized (504) to the user who determines (508) a route on the area, said route including a number of preferred elements belonging to the plurality of elements, which is detected (512). The preferred elements shall act as targets for a predefined metadata operation (514), e.g. change of a metadata attribute value.
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32 Claims
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1. A method for directing a metadata operation at a number of electronically stored data elements in an electronic device having the steps of
visualizing an area with a number of data elements on a display device to a user (504), obtaining control information about a user-defined route between user-defined start and end points on the visualized area comprising said number of data elements (508), specifying based on the route such data elements belonging to said number of data elements over which the route passed (512), and performing the metadata operation on said specified data elements (514).
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12. An electronic device comprising
data output means (606) for visualizing an area with a number of data elements, data input means (608) for receiving control information from a user, and processing means (602) configured to determine based on the control information a user-defined route between user-defined start and end points on the visualized area comprising said number of data elements and to specify based on the route such data elements belonging to said number of data elements over which the determined route passed, whereupon said device is further configured to perform a metadata operation on said specified data elements.
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30. A computer program comprising code means (612) for directing a metadata operation at a number of electronically stored data elements, said code means (612) adapted to, when the program is run on a computer device, visualize an area with a number of data elements on a display device to a user, to obtain control information about a user-defined route between user-defined start and end points on the visualized area comprising said number of data elements, to specify on the basis of the route such data elements belonging to said number of data elements over which the route passed, and finally to perform the metadata operation on said specified data elements.
- 31. A carrier medium having a computer program recorded thereon, the computer program comprising code means adapted to, when the program is run on a computer device, visualize an area with a number of data elements on a display device to a user, to obtain control information about a user-defined route between user-defined start and end points on the visualized area comprising said number of data elements, to specify on the basis of the route such data elements belonging to said number of data elements over which the route passed, and to perform a metadata operation on said specified data elements.
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