Method and apparatus for organizing information in a computer system
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- determining a mathematical representation of a document, wherein the document is an electronic mail received through an electronic mail system, wherein said document is not part of a collection of documents;
comparing said mathematical representation of said document to a collective mathematical representation of the collection of documents; and
categorizing, by a data processing system, said document as being associated with said collection based on said comparing, wherein the content of said document is not known to a user of said data processing system upon said categorizing.
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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 user'"'"'s 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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36 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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determining a mathematical representation of a document, wherein the document is an electronic mail received through an electronic mail system, wherein said document is not part of a collection of documents; comparing said mathematical representation of said document to a collective mathematical representation of the collection of documents; and categorizing, by a data processing system, said document as being associated with said collection based on said comparing, wherein the content of said document is not known to a user of said data processing system upon said categorizing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory machine readable medium containing executable computer program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause said system to perform a method to organize information in the data processing system, the method comprising:
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determining a mathematical representation of a document, wherein the document is an electronic mail received through an electronic mail system, wherein said document is not part of a collection of documents; comparing said mathematical representation of said document to a collective mathematical representation of the collection of documents; and categorizing said document as being associated with said collection based on said comparing, wherein the content of said document is not known to a user of said data processing system upon said categorizing. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A data processing system to organize information, the data processing system comprising:
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means for determining a mathematical representation of a document, wherein the document is an electronic mail received through an electronic mail system, wherein said document is not part of a collection of documents; means for comparing said mathematical representation of said document to a collective mathematical representation of the collection of documents; and means for categorizing said document as being associated with said collection based on comparing said mathematical representation of said document to said collective mathematical representation, wherein the content of said document is not known to a user of said data processing system upon said document is categorized. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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