SYNCHRONIZED ASSET TRAYS

• US 20140258929A1
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corel Corporation (Corel Holdings LP)
• Original Assignee: Corel Corporation (Corel Holdings LP)
• Inventors: Mereu, Stephen Wesley
• Granted Patent: US 10,235,381 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A method including the steps of: providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium including a computer readable code configured to run on a local computer and to perform a process to organize a plurality of assets in a tray system including a core tray program including one or more trays, and a synchronization manager configured to synchronize assets represented by icons in the one or more trays with corresponding assets at one or more file storage locations; running on a local computer the computer readable code; displaying by computer the tray; and synchronizing by computer the assets represented by icons in the one or more trays with the corresponding assets at one or more file storage locations. A system to perform the method is also described.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer readable code configured to run on a local computer and to perform a process to organize a plurality of assets in a tray system comprising a core tray program including one or more trays, and a synchronization manager configured to synchronize assets represented by icons in said one or more trays with corresponding assets at one or more file storage locations;

running on a local computer said computer readable code;

displaying by computer said tray; and

synchronizing by computer said assets represented by icons in said one or more trays with said corresponding assets at one or more file storage locations.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer readable code further comprises providing said core tray program including an abstraction layer with at least one interface to a physical storage location configured to store one or more assets in a cloud.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer readable code further comprises providing said core tray program including an abstraction layer with at least one interface to a physical storage location configured to store one or more assets at a social media site.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying by computer said tray comprises displaying by computer said one or more trays as part of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a graphics or photo editing computer program.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said icons comprises a low resolution bit mapped impression of an image.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein following a user increase in tray size, said low resolution bit mapped impression of an image is replaced by computer with a higher resolution bit mapped image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said icons in at least one of said one or more trays represent images of a project.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said icons in at least one of said one or more trays represent images having a common theme.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one asset of said plurality of assets comprises an image file or a vector file.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one asset of said plurality of assets comprises a document file.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one asset of said plurality of assets comprises an asset selected from the group consisting of a font, a color, and a pattern.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one asset of said plurality of assets comprises an application setting or an application configuration.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one asset of said plurality of assets comprises a reference to an asset.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said logical asset resides at a remote location accessible via the Internet or an intranet.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one asset of said plurality of assets comprises data which describes an asset.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said icons represent assets in a tray.

17. A system comprising:

a local computer configured to run a computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer readable code configured to run on said computer and to perform a process to organize a plurality of assets in a tray system comprising a core tray program including one or more trays, and a synchronization manager configured to synchronize assets represented by icons in said one or more trays with corresponding assets at one or more file storage locations, said core program configured to run on a local computer, said computer readable code configured to display by computer said tray, and to synchronize by computer said assets in said one or more trays with said corresponding assets at one or more file storage locations.