Rich end-user data views

• US 8,051,406 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Pearce, Douglas R, Knight, Holly, Seshadri, Praveen
• Primary Examiner(s): Yigdall; Michael J
• Application Number:
  US11/096,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20050246637A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,405 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/117
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data

Abstract

A system and/or methodology that enables personalization as a platform service for applications via a rich data view. More particularly, the subject invention provides for a rich data view to be rendered to an end-user whereas management of the data can be effected (e.g., personalized) thereafter. In other words, the invention enables a user to establish and access personalized mechanisms via a rich data view. The personalized mechanisms are based upon rule-based logic with respect to application data types.

Claims

1. A computer implemented system including a processor and memory that facilitates data management, comprising:

a rich data view component that renders a customization component to an end user, the customization component allows the end user to select a file type having an associated set of properties, to create a new property, and to add the end-user-created property to the set of properties associated with the selected file type, the rich data view component forming part of a file explorer configured to display a plurality of files including files of the selected file type, the file explorer configured to allow the end user to sort the files of the selected file type based on values of the added end-user-created property;

a media-editing application including a user interface; and

an integration component that interfaces the customization component with the rich data view component and that integrates the end-user-created property into the media-editing application to allow the end user to use the user interface of the media-editing application to access the end-user-created property, which was created using the rich data view component of the file explorer.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the integration component processes application data at least one of externally and internally to return a result to the rich data view component.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the customization component is a dynamic set component that facilitates defining a subset of application data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the file explorer is configured to allow the end user to filter the files of the selected file type based on values of the end-user-created property.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the end-user-created property is a static property.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the end-user-created property is a computed property.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the selected file type comprises a media file type;

wherein the media file type has an associated set of actions that may be taken with respect to the media file type;

wherein the customization component allows the end user to add an end-user-defined media-content-editing action to the set of actions associated with the media file type;

wherein the file explorer is configured to present the end-user-defined media-content-editing action in response to a selection of a media file of the media file type; and

wherein the file explorer is configured to, in response to a selection of the end-user-defined media-content-editing action presented by the file explorer, launch a process that automatically edits the selected media file according to the presented media-content-editing action.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the media file is an image file;

wherein the presented end-user-defined media-content-editing action comprises red eye reduction; and

wherein the file explorer is configured to, in response to the selection of the red eye reduction, launch a process that automatically performs the red eye reduction on the image file.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the customizing component represents an end-user defined relationship between elements in a store, the relationship is at least one of common value based and link based.

10. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for carrying out the system of claim 1.

11. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of facilitating a rich data view, the method comprising:

defining an end-user programmable component to an end user, the end-user programmable component facilitates allowing the end user to program one or more programmatic rules relating to functionality associated with data for a first application and a second application, the first application comprising a media file editor configured to edit the media content of media files, the second application comprising a file explorer configured to display a plurality of files;

associating the one or more end-user-programmed rules with a media file type, at least one of the one or more end-user-programmed rules associated with the media file type configuring the file explorer to automatically present a first media-content-editing action in response to a selection of media files of the media file type, the at least one of the one or more end-user-programmed rules configuring the file explorer to, in response to a selection of the first end-user-defined media-content-editing action presented by the file explorer, cause the media file editor to automatically edit the selected media files according to the first media-content-editing action;

rendering a processed subset of the data into the rich data view in accordance with the one or more programmatic rules;

by the file explorer, automatically presenting the first media-content-editing action in response to the selection of media files of the media file type; and

by the file explorer, in response to the selection of the first end-user-defined media-content-editing action, causing the media file editor to automatically edit the selected media files according to the first media-content-editing action.

12. The medium of claim 11, wherein the media files are image files;

wherein the first end-user-defined media-content-editing action comprises red eye reduction; and

wherein the at least one of the one or more end-user-programmed rules configure the file explorer to, in response to the selection of the red eye reduction, cause the media file editor to automatically perform the red eye reduction on the image files.

13. The medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises returning the subset of the data from processing in accordance with the one or more rules.

14. The medium of claim 11, wherein the end-user programmable component facilitates defining the subset of the data.

15. The medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises at least one of:

associating one or more view definitions with a type or instance of a type; and

associating the one or more rules to define relationships between types or instances of types.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the end-user programmable component is at least one of a dataset definition component, a data property definition component and a data relationship definition component.

17. A computer implemented system including a processor and memory that facilitates data management, comprising:

a customization component that facilitates end-user definition of functional programmatic features related to a first application and a second application, the first application comprising an image file editor configured to edit the image content of image files, the second application comprising a file explorer configured to display a plurality of files, the functional programmatic features including a first image-editing action;

a first rich data view component that can render a first user interface configured to present the first image-editing action, the first rich data view component forming part of the image file editor;

a second rich data view component that can render a second user interface configured to present the first image-editing action, the second rich data view component forming part of the file explorer, the end-user-defined functional programmatic features configuring the file explorer to automatically present the second rich data view component in response a selection of an image file, the end-user-defined functional programmatic features configuring the file explorer to, in response to a selection of the first-image-editing action presented by the second user interface rendered by the second rich data view component of the file explorer, launch a process that automatically edits the selected image file according to the first-image-editing action;

an integration component that interfaces the customization component with the first and second rich data view components to facilitate end-user programming related to the image file editor and the file explorer;

a display for displaying a rendering of the first rich data view component as part of the image file editor and displaying a rendering of the second rich data view as part of the file explorer;

by the file explorer, automatically presenting the second rich data view component in response the selection of the image file; and

by the file explorer, in response to the selection of the first-image-editing action presented by the second user interface rendered by the second rich data view component of the file explorer, launching a process that automatically edits the selected image file according to the first-image-editing action.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the first-image-editing action comprises red eye reduction;

and wherein the end-user-defined functional programmatic features configure the file explorer to, in response to the selection of the red eye reduction, launch a process that automatically performs the red eye reduction on the selected image file.