SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING, SHARING, AND ORGANIZING INFORMATION STORED ON MULTIPLE CLOUD SERVICES
First Claim
1. A method for marking information aggregated from across a plurality of computer storage facilities comprising:
- providing a user interface (UI) on a computing device capable of creating, conveying or displaying at least one item of information;
providing a selection of marks which may be applied to said item of information, said selection of marks comprising identifying representations of different associative informations;
selecting at least one mark from said selection of marks which potentially describes said item of information to apply to said item of information; and
recording an association between said at least one mark and said item of information on said computing device;
wherein said association stores metadata describing said item of information with marking information about its associative information.
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Abstract
This invention relates to systems and methods for accessing, managing, sharing, and organizing information stored on multiple cloud services, particularly to accessing and managing large numbers of documents and/or files stored across multiple cloud services while providing efficient, intuitive and accessible organization for the documents and/or files without separately logging in or accessing each of the locations, each time. In general, a user may utilize multiple cloud services, which may include remote private servers as well as mainstream public services, and may generally store files and/or documents across the multiple cloud services.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for marking information aggregated from across a plurality of computer storage facilities comprising:
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providing a user interface (UI) on a computing device capable of creating, conveying or displaying at least one item of information; providing a selection of marks which may be applied to said item of information, said selection of marks comprising identifying representations of different associative informations; selecting at least one mark from said selection of marks which potentially describes said item of information to apply to said item of information; and recording an association between said at least one mark and said item of information on said computing device; wherein said association stores metadata describing said item of information with marking information about its associative information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for marking information aggregated from across multiple computer storage facilities and/or devices comprising:
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a user interface on a computing device for displaying, conveying or creating at least one item of information; a selection of marks for applying to said item of information, said selection comprises marks for identifying representation of different associative informations; at least one mark for potentially describing said item of information and an association between the item of information and said at least one mark is stored on said computing device; wherein said association stores metadata describing said item of information with said associative informations and is recorded in a consistent manner which disambiguates the origin, timing and priority of said metadata across a plurality of computing devices or cloud services to enable resolution of conflicting information and agglomeration of non-conflicting information using an assertion selected from the group consisting of property assertions, multiple property assertions and equivalence assertions. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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16. A method for managing information files stored on multiple storage facilities by a user without separately logging in or accessing each of the locations, each time by the user, comprising:
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downloading an app onto a device; establishing sources of information files that are to be managed by said app; utilizing said app to access said information files in said sources through a proper application programming interface (API); and displaying all of information files accessible to said user within said app. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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