Method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer system
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- permitting a user to identify a document through a graphical user interface;
comparing said document to each document within a plurality of documents; and
,displaying a representation of a subset of said plurality of documents on said graphical user interface, respective content of each document in said subset having met a comparison threshold when compared against said document'"'"'s content during said comparing.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer filing system. The method and apparatus include the creation of a pile comprising a collection of documents and displaying a graphical representation of the collection of documents. The method and apparatus further include browsing the collection of documents by pointing a cursor at a particular item in the collection of documents to reveal an indicia for the particular item in the collection of documents. The filing system can automatically divide a pile (e.g. a collection of documents from an electronic mail network) into subpiles on the basis of the content of each document in the pile, and the filing system, at the users request can automatically file away documents into existing piles in the computer system on the basis of a similarity match between the content (or other internal representation) of the document and the content (or other internal representation) of existing piles in the computer system. The filing system can also create a pile from a sample document by using the internal representation of the document as the internal representation of the new pile. The computer filing system provides various interfaces in connection with piles to the user of the system to provide feedback and other information to the user, including information concerning the documents and piles in the computer'"'"'s filing system.
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31 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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permitting a user to identify a document through a graphical user interface; comparing said document to each document within a plurality of documents; and
,displaying a representation of a subset of said plurality of documents on said graphical user interface, respective content of each document in said subset having met a comparison threshold when compared against said document'"'"'s content during said comparing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An article of manufacture, comprising:
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a machine readable non-transitory storage medium containing program code which when processed by a processing unit causes said processing unit to perform a method that includes the following; permitting a user to identify a document through a graphical user interface; comparing said document to each document within a plurality of documents; and
,displaying a representation of a subset of said plurality of documents on said graphical user interface, respective content of each document in said subset having met a comparison threshold when compared against said document'"'"'s content during said comparing. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computing system, comprising:
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a processing unit coupled to a memory, said memory containing program code which when processed by said processing unit causes said processing unit to perform a method that includes the following; permitting a user to identify a document through a graphical user interface; comparing said document to each document within a plurality of documents; and
,displaying a representation of a subset of said plurality of documents on said graphical user interface, respective content of each document in said subset having met a comparison threshold when compared against said document'"'"'s content during said comparing. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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