BROWSER FOR MANAGING DOCUMENTS

• US 20080071822A1
• Filed: 11/21/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Audet, Mathieu, Berthiaume, Yves
• Application Number:
  US11/944,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20080071822A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method for classifying documents to a browser is disclosed, the method comprising establishing communication with a selected network address; displaying at least one document with the browser; moving the at least one document inside the browser; and generating a document vector grouping a plurality of documents.

Claims

1. A method for classifying documents to a browser, the method comprising:

establishing communication with a selected network address;

displaying at least one document with the browser;

moving the at least one document inside the browser; and

generating a document vector grouping a plurality of documents.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising installing a plug-in to the browser to allow the browser to manipulate the document vector.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the documents are disposed on the document vector along a timeline.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of documents has at least one characterization attribute in common.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising generating a second document vector grouping a second plurality of documents.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising using a game controller to move along the document vector.

7. A browser for multi-dimensional graphical representation of documents, the browser being adapted for representing a plurality of documents on a document vector.

8. The browser of claim 7, wherein the plurality of documents on the document vector have a characterization attribute in common.

9. The browser of claim 7, wherein the document vector groups a plurality of documents along a timeline.

10. The browser of claim 7, further adapted to select a characterization attribute to group a second plurality of documents on a second document vector, each document from the second plurality of documents having the selected characterization attribute associated therewith.

11. The browser of claim 7, wherein a movement of the document vector is managed with a game controller.