Methods, Systems, and Computer-Readable Mediums for Providing Persisting and Continuously Updating Search Folders
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Abstract
Providing persisting search folders within a computer that continuously identify data items having metadata matching a query of search criteria. A query of search criteria formulated via a graphical user interface is applied to a search filter to create a search folder. When the search folder is made live, the search filter is used to search one or more data stores for data items having metadata matching the query of search criteria. Upon finding these data items, the search folder is populated with a link to each data item having metadata matching the query of search criteria. The search folder detects when any new data items are added to a data store and when a change occurs to any metadata of data items previously stored in a data store. Upon detection, the search folder store links to matching new or changed data items.
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51 Claims
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1-31. -31. (canceled)
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32. A method of providing a virtual folder within at least one computer, the method comprising:
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continuously identifying data items in a datastore that satisfy a first query;
providing a first virtual folder, the virtual folder comprising a collection of links to the data items that satisfy the first query;
continuously identifying data items in a datastore that satisfy a second query;
providing a second virtual folder comprising a collection of links to the data items that satisfy the second query wherein at least one link in the second virtual folder refers to a data item that is also referred to by a link in the first virtual folder; and
storing a modified version of the data item referred to by a link. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer-readable medium which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for saving search criteria from an email search, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
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receiving a query specifying metadata search parameters;
associating the query with a first virtual folder;
continuously updating the first virtual folder to store links to data items that currently satisfy the search criteria; and
modifying at least one of the data items that satisfy the search criteria via the links in the virtual folder. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A system for searching a datastore, the system comprising:
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a memory storage; and
a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to;
provide a first user interface element capable of being continuously updated to display a search folder which contains links to data items in a datastore that satisfy at least one search criterion, provide a second user interface element capable of displaying a search criteria which controls the search criteria for the search folder, and provide a third user interface element capable of instructing a datastore to modify a data item referred to by a link contained in the search folder. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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