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System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements

  • US 7,162,466 B2
  • Filed: 05/16/2003
  • Issued: 01/09/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computer system having a display and a memory for storing items with metadata properties, a method of filtering items, the method comprising:

  • providing a plurality of display objects on the display that each represent one or more items;

    providing a filter area on the display in which a user can enter a filter term;

    receiving the filter term corresponding to a metadata property entered by the user in the filter area;

    filtering the items represented by the display objects based on the filter term; and

    modifying the display objects that are provided on the display so as to represent the items that have the metadata property that corresponds to the filter term in response to the filtering of the items, wherein one or more of the modified display objects comprises a virtual folder, the virtual folders including numerical representations of the number of items that the virtual folders contain, and wherein the filtering of the items causes the numerical representations to be correspondingly reduced.

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