Presenting Data Files to an Application Based on a Characteristic of the Application and the Files

• US 20100229188A1
• Filed: 03/03/2009
• Published: 09/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bomma, Shashidhar, Hart, Brian W., Hegde, Nikhil, Baratakke, Kavitha Vittal Murthy
• Application Number:
  US12/396,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20100229188A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems

Abstract

In accordance with the invention, it has been recognized that for an application that is of a particular type and has certain characteristics, a benefit can be achieved by presenting multiple files to the application in a particular pre-planned or pre-specified order. Accordingly, an embodiment of the invention is directed to a method in a data processing system, wherein information pertaining to multiple data files is located in a container, and a plurality of applications of different types are each disposed to request a presentation of the files. Responsive to a request from a given application for presentation of the files, it is determined that the given application is of a particular type. The method further includes specifying an order for the presentation of the files, wherein the specified order is pre-selected to achieve an objective associated with applications of the given type. The files are then presented to the given application in the specified order.

Claims

1. In a data processing system, wherein information pertaining to multiple data files is located in a container, and a plurality of applications of different types are each disposed to request a presentation of the files, a method comprising the steps of:

responsive to a request from a given application for a presentation of the files, determining that the given application is of a particular type;

specifying an order for the presentation of said files, wherein said specified order is pre-selected to achieve an objective associated with applications of said particular type; and

presenting said files to said given application in said specified order.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a map is used to determine that said given application is of said particular type.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

an API call is used to indicate that said given application is of said particular type.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said given application is of a type that is disposed to delete the files to be presented, and said files are successively presented in a ranked order, wherein a least important file is presented first, and a most important file is presented last.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said particular application is of a type that is disposed to copy the presented files, and said files are successively presented in a ranked order, wherein a most important file is presented first, and a least important file is presented last.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a system associated with said container monitors a sequence of API calls send from said given application, and uses said sequence of API calls to determine that said given application is of said particular type.

7. In a data processing system, wherein information pertaining to multiple data files is located in a container, and a plurality of applications of different types are each disposed to request a presentation of the files, a computer program product executable in a computer readable medium comprising:

instructions responsive to a request from a given application for a presentation of the files, for determining that the given application is of a particular type;

instructions for specifying an order for the presentation of said files, wherein said specified order is pre-selected to achieve an objective associated with applications of said particular type; and

instructions for presenting said files to said given application in said specified order.