INFORMATION ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT, AND PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHODS

• US 20150200945A1
• Filed: 01/12/2015
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kuhoo Edson
• Original Assignee: Kuhoo Edson
• Inventors: Edson, Kuhoo
• Granted Patent: US 9,420,017 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2147 Locking files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A cloud-based system is disclosed including at least one local client device communicatively coupled, via an intermediate network, with a server device having an information processing, organization, and management engine, and further including distributed local and cloud databases spread across separately owned user accounts. The information processing, organization, and management engine includes one or more information processing, organization, and management blocks responsive to selections by the owner of content and other users of the system to control access to and use of content by users of the system.

Claims

1. A cloud-based system comprising:

at least one local client device communicatively coupled, via an intermediate network, with a server device, comprising an information processing, organization, and management engine, and distributed local and cloud databases across separately owned user accounts;

wherein the information processing, organization, and management engine comprises;

a Connected Workspaces Block to determine how an owner of information Macro-objects, Mini-objects, and Micro-objects has selected to share content by granting other users secure access to the information, and how the information is visually displayed for those who have access to that content and how they are able to use, manage, and manipulate the information, and to organize and display available users with whom the owner may share his/her content;

a Grant Access/Smart Sharing Block to connect the owner'"'"'s workspace to another user'"'"'s workspace;

a Smart Security Block to enable the owner to apply security to Macro- and Mini-objects, to apply inheritance rules, to protect content which is marked confidential, to notify the owner when confidential information is re-shared, and to enable the owner to revoke access to another user who has access to the content via a re-share;

a Make Content Non-Editable Block to determine if the owner has selected to prevent a user from editing portions of a Macro- or Mini-object to which that user has been granted access by enabling an owner to mark portions of his/her Macro- or Mini-objects as uneditable by other users;

a Smart Search Block to enable a user to find and access content across multiple distributed cloud-based user accounts or across an enterprise;

a Display Search Results Block to determine how search results are displayed and to enable a user to request access to results to which he/she does not have access;

a Find Similar Block to enable a user to search across connected workspaces or his/her enterprise to find content similar to his/her own content, including searching for an image within other content, and to replace his/her own content, in his/her own workspace or everywhere the content has been used, with content located during the search;

a Smart Version Management Block to maintain versions of Macro- and Mini-objects as changed by any user who has been enabled to edit the Macro- and Mini-objects through permissions and to enable the owner of the content to rollback to any previous version, back to and including the original version, of a Mini-object that has been modified;

a Smart Copy/Create New Block to enable a user to copy content owned by another user to his/her own workspace and maintain the provenance of a Mini-object including attribution to allow an original creator of content to be identified;

a Smart Replace Block to enable the owner of Mini-objects to replace his/her Mini-objects with other Mini-objects of the same type and to propagate the replacement Mini-objects across all workspaces and within all Macro-objects that included the original Mini-objects;

a Coleo for PowerPoint®

Block to enable a user to access and use connected workspaces from the cloud or from his/her desktop directly from within PowerPoint®

to access Macro- and Mini-objects to which he/she has been granted access within PowerPoint®

to create new Macro-objects or modify existing Macro- and Mini-objects;

a Desktop Coleo Block to control the way owned and shared content is synchronized to the owner'"'"'s client device including synchronization of Macro- and Mini-objects and to enable a user to grant access to other users directly from the user'"'"'s local database;

a Synchronization Block to synchronize both Macro- and Mini-objects once the user is connected to the network;

a Smart Delete Block to enable a user to delete his/her own Macro- and Mini-objects from either only his/her workspace, or everywhere those objects are used, including another user'"'"'s Macro-objects in that other user'"'"'s workspace;

a Smart View Block to enable a user to view all uploaded Macro- and Mini-object content and have the ability to filter the uploaded content regardless of the folder in which the content resides;

a Smart Categorization/Tagging Block to enable content to be categorized automatically based on user defined rules as the content is being uploaded to the user'"'"'s workspace;

a Smart Business Social Graph Block to enable persons who share content with each other to take advantage of their online business social communities to gain access to content to which they would not otherwise have access;

a Manage Workspaces Block to enable users to manage and organize their connected workspaces in the cloud by hiding workspaces or adding workspaces to favorites;

a Smart Statistics Block to enable statistics to be provided to the owner of content respecting use of the content;

an Object Extraction Block to extract Macro- and Mini-objects as well as Micro-objects from within the Mini-objects;

a Remove Duplicate Block to enable a user to identify and eliminate duplicate Mini-objects from within his/her Macro-objects, ensuring every Mini-object has only one copy existing in a user'"'"'s workspace so when changes are made to that one copy, the changes are reflected within every Macro-object in which the Mini-object resides; and

a Create New File Block to enable a user to mix-and-match Mini-objects from multiple workspaces across the distributed cloud databases from within the cloud interface to create new Macro-objects.

2. A system as in claim 1 wherein the Find Similar Block enables a user to search across connected workspaces or his/her enterprise to find content similar to his/her own content using a percentage range of similarity specified by the user.

3. A system as in claim 1 wherein the Coleo for PowerPoint®

Block 220 further comprises a font crawler function which enables a user to modify fonts in an entire presentation and for all presentations within a workspace.

4. A system as in claim 1 wherein the Smart View Block enables a user to view all content within a date range selected by the user.

5. A system as in claim 1 wherein the Remove Duplicate Block enables a user to select to ignore Mini-object elements such as headers, footers, and templates.