Providing resilient links

• US 20080115048A1
• Filed: 11/13/2006
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Veselova, Olga, Kim, Myungsub
• Granted Patent: US 7,761,785 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Embodiments are provided to create and maintain one or more links or associations to different types of data and other information. In an embodiment, one or more links be created and maintained, wherein the one or more links provide one or more pathways between structured information. A user can use a link to locate desired information, such as a notebook, section group, section, page, and/or page object for example for example. The various embodiments provide links that remain resilient should the information be reorganized or otherwise changed.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium including executable instructions which, when executed, locate information by:

examining a number of parameters associated with a link, wherein the parameters include one or more parameters associated with a link target;

using the number of parameters associated with the link to determine a path to the link target, wherein the path includes at least one of an absolute path and a relative path;

using the at least one of the absolute path and the relative path to locate the link target;

using a target identifier to locate the link target if the link target is not located using the at least one of the absolute path and the relative path; and

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using a base path to locate the link target if the link target is not located using the target identifier and the at least one of the absolute path and the relative path.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by using a page title and the at least one of the absolute path and the relative path to locate the path to the link target.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by navigating to the link target upon locating the link target.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by examining the number of parameters associated with the link, wherein the number of parameters comprise parameters associated with a note-taking application.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by examining the number of parameters associated with the link, wherein the link is between items of a hierarchal information structure.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by organizing information associated with the link, wherein the elements of the hierarchal information structure include at least one of a notebook, section, page, and page object.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by using at least one of a page and a section identifier to locate the link target if the link target is not located using the at least one of the absolute path and the relative path.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by using the base path to locate the link target, wherein the base path is associated with a location of the link.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by using the base path to locate the link target, wherein the base path points to the relative path.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by using a page object identifier associated with a page object to locate the link target.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by navigating to the page object if the page object is located using the page object identifier.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, locate information by locating at least one of a notebook, section, page, and page object after making changes to the number of parameters associated with the link.

13. A system to maintain information comprising:

an organizer component to organize the information according to a hierarchal information structure;

a link component to create one or more links to a target associated with the hierarchal information structure, wherein the one or more links include a number of parameters associated with a path selected from at least one of an absolute path and a relative path; and

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a locator component to locate the target associated with the link, wherein the locator component is to use the number of parameters associated with the at least one of the absolute path and relative path to locate the target.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the link component is further configured to create one or more links to the hierarchal information structure that includes at least one of a notebook, section group, section, page, and page object.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the locator component is further configured to locate the target associated with the link by examining at least one of the relative path, a target identifier, and a base path.

16. A method of associating information comprising:

determining a target of a link, wherein the target is associated with a hierarchal information structure;

defining a path to the target, wherein the path includes one or more parameters associated with the target including at least one of a base path and a relative path; and

creating the link to the target, wherein the link includes at least one of the base path, the relative path, and a target identifier, wherein the link can be interacted with to locate the target.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising determining an origin of the link.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising relativizing the path to the target if the link is located in a note-taking application.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising defining a base path to the location of the link.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising including a Global Unique Identifier (GUID) as the target identifier.