ORGANIZING DOCUMENTS THROUGH UTILIZATION OF PEOPLE TAGS
First Claim
1. A method comprising the following computer-executable acts:
- receiving a document that has a people tag assigned thereto, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that corresponds to the document, and wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor;
accessing contact data pertaining to a second individual, wherein the contact data comprises second data that is indicative of identities of contacts of the second individual, wherein the second data comprises data that is indicative of the identity of the first individual;
comparing the contact data with the first data; and
displaying the document on a computer screen in conjunction with text that identifies the first individual to the second individual, wherein the text indicates a name of the first individual as assigned to the first individual by the second individual.
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Abstract
A method disclosed herein includes the acts of receiving a document that has a people tag assigned thereto, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that corresponds to the document, and wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor, and accessing contact data pertaining to a second individual, wherein the contact data comprises second data that is indicative of identities of contacts of the second individual, wherein the second data comprises data that is indicative of the identity of the first individual. The method also includes comparing the contact data with the first data, and displaying the document on a computer screen in conjunction with text that identifies the first individual to the third individual, wherein the text indicates a name of the first individual as assigned to the first individual by the second individual.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising the following computer-executable acts:
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receiving a document that has a people tag assigned thereto, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that corresponds to the document, and wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor; accessing contact data pertaining to a second individual, wherein the contact data comprises second data that is indicative of identities of contacts of the second individual, wherein the second data comprises data that is indicative of the identity of the first individual; comparing the contact data with the first data; and displaying the document on a computer screen in conjunction with text that identifies the first individual to the second individual, wherein the text indicates a name of the first individual as assigned to the first individual by the second individual. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system that facilitates selectively organizing documents on a personal computing device, the system comprising:
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a matcher component that undertakes a comparison between content of a people tag assigned to a document with contact data, wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor, wherein the people tag is representative of a first individual that corresponds to the document, wherein the people tag comprises data that is indicative of an identity of the first individual, wherein the contact data comprises data pertaining to contacts of a second individual signed into a service, and wherein the matcher component locates a particular contact represented in the contact data that corresponds to the first individual based at least in part upon the comparison; and an organizer component that automatically organizes the document amongst a plurality of other documents by causing the document to be associated with a graphical item that represents the particular contact of the second individual, wherein the graphical item has text corresponding thereto that is assigned by the second individual to identify the first individual. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
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receiving an image, wherein the image comprises a people tag assigned thereto by an assignor, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that is included in the image; receiving contact data pertaining to a plurality of contacts of a second individual, wherein the contact data comprises data that is indicative of identities of the contacts of the second individual, wherein the first individual is a contact of the second individual, and wherein the contact data comprises second data generated by the second individual to identify the first individual to the second individual; comparing the first data with the contact data; determining that the first individual is a contact of the second individual based at least in part upon the comparing of the first data with the second data; and causing the image to be displayed in conjunction with the second data when the second individual is logged into a service at a computing device being utilized to view the image file.
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