Methods of managing items in a shared workspace

• US 8,819,587 B1
• Filed: 10/30/2012
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Sorvillo, Michael, Shrum, Kenneth William, Chen, Theodore Yining, Johnston, Scott Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitaro, Ryan
• Assistant Examiner(s): IPAKCHI, MARYAM M
• Application Number:
  US13/663,804
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/162 Delete operations erasing in storage systems G06F3/0652
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

A method includes transmitting, from a storage system to a user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a current view representing the one or more items. The method also includes selecting, at the storage system in response to a first user input signal that identifies at least one item from one or more items that are stored at the storage system, a removal operation based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the one or more predetermined criteria include a view type of the current view. The method also includes performing, at the storage system, the removal operation with respect to the at least one item.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing, at a storage system, an item that can be represented by a file interface screen having a first view type and can be represented by the file interface screen having a second view type that is different than the first view type;

receiving, at the storage system from a user system, a request for a selected view of the file interface screen, wherein the selected view corresponds to at least one of the first view type or the second view type;

transmitting, from the storage system to the user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display the selected view, wherein the item is represented in the selected view;

receiving, at the storage system, a first user input signal that identifies the item;

identifying, at the storage system and in response to receiving the first user input signal, one of a first removal operation or a second removal operation as a selected removal operation, wherein the first removal operation includes deleting the at least one item, the second removal operation includes modifying information that associates the at least one item with the selected view of the one or more items such that the at least one item no longer appears in the selected view, the first removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the selected view corresponds to the first view type and the second removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the selected view corresponds to the second view type; and

performing, at the storage system, the selected removal operation with respect to the item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first view type is a folder-based view type and the second view type is an attribute-based view type.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, from the storage system to the user system subsequent to performing the selected removal operation, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a confirmation message, wherein the confirmation message identifies the selected removal operation.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the confirmation message includes a user operable interface element that, when activated, causes the user system to transmit an undo request to the storage system, and the storage system reverses the selected removal operation in response to the undo request.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the storage system is operable to perform each of the first removal operation and the second removal operation with respect to the item.

6. A method comprising:

transmitting, from a storage system to a user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a current view representing one or more items that are stored at the storage system;

receiving, at the storage system, a first user input signal that identifies at least one item from the one or more items that are stored at the storage system;

identifying, at the storage system and in response to receiving the first user input signal, one of a first removal operation or a second removal operation based a predetermined criteria associated with at least one of the at least one item or the current view as a selected removal operation, wherein the first removal operation includes deleting the at least one item, the second removal operation includes modifying information that associates the at least one item with the selected view of the one or more items such that the at least one item no longer appears in the selected view, the first removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the predetermined criteria has a first value and the second removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the predetermined criteria has a second value that is different than the first value;

performing, at the storage system, the selected removal operation with respect to the at least one item; and

transmitting, from the storage system to the user system subsequent to performing the selected removal operation, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a confirmation message, wherein the confirmation message identifies the selected removal operation, the confirmation message includes, and the storage system reverses the selected a user operable interface element that, when activated by a single user input action, causes the user system to transmit an alternative operation request to the storage system removal operation and performs an alternative operation with respect to the at least one item in response to the alternative operation request.

7. A non-transitory storage medium including program instructions executable by one or more processors that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

storing, at a storage system, an item that can be represented by a file interface screen having a first view type and can be represented by the file interface screen having a second view type that is different than the first view type;

receiving, at the storage system from a user system, a request for a selected view of the file interface screen, wherein the selected view corresponds to at least one of the first view type or the second view type;

transmitting, from the storage system to the user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display the selected view, wherein the item is represented in the selected view;

receiving, at the storage system, a first user input signal that identifies the item;

identifying, at the storage system and in response to receiving the first user input signal, one of a first removal operation or a second removal operation as a selected removal operation, wherein the first removal operation includes deleting the at least one item, the second removal operation includes modifying information that associates the at least one item with the selected view of the one or more items such that the at least one item no longer appears in the selected view, the first removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the selected view corresponds to the first view type and the second removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the selected view corresponds to the second view type; and

performing, at the storage system, the selected removal operation with respect to the item.

8. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 7, wherein the first view type is a folder-based view type and the second view type is an attribute-based view type.

9. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 7, further comprising:

transmitting, from the storage system to the user system subsequent to performing the selected removal operation, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a confirmation message, wherein the confirmation message identifies the selected removal operation.

10. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 9, wherein the confirmation message includes a user operable interface element that, when activated, causes the user system to transmit an undo request to the storage system, and the storage system reverses the selected removal operation in response to the undo request.

11. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 9, wherein the confirmation message includes a user operable interface element that, when activated by a single user input action, causes the user system to transmit an alternative operation request to the storage system, and the storage system reverses the selected removal operation and performs an alternative operation with respect to the item in response to the alternative operation request.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memory devices for storing program instructions used by the one or more processors, wherein the program instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

store, at a storage system, an item that can be represented by a file interface screen having a first view type and can be represented by the file interface screen having a second view type that is different than the first view type;

receive, at the storage system from a user system, a request for a selected view of the file interface screen, wherein the selected view corresponds to at least one of the first view type or the second view type;

transmit, from the storage system to the user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display the selected view, wherein the item is represented in the selected view;

receive, at the storage system, a first user input signal that identifies the item;

identify, at the storage system and in response to receiving the first user input signal, one of a first removal operation or a second removal operation as a selected removal operation, wherein the first removal operation includes deleting the at least one item, the second removal operation includes modifying information that associates the at least one item with the selected view of the one or more items such that the at least one item no longer appears in the selected view, the first removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the selected view corresponds to the first view type and the second removal operation is identified by the storage system as the selected removal operation if the selected view corresponds to the second view type; and

perform, at the storage system, the selected removal operation with respect to the item.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first view type is a folder-based view type and the second view type is an attribute-based view type.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first removal operation includes deleting the item and the second removal operation includes modifying information that associates the item with the selected view of the one or more items such that the at least one item no longer appears in the selected view.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the program instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

transmit, from the storage system to the user system subsequent to performing the selected removal operation, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a confirmation message, wherein the confirmation message identifies the selected removal operation.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the confirmation message includes a user operable interface element that, when activated, causes the user system to transmit an undo request to the storage system, and the storage system reverses the selected removal operation in response to the undo request.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the confirmation message includes a user operable interface element that, when activated by a single user input action, causes the user system to transmit an alternative operation request to the storage system, and the storage system reverses the selected removal operation and performs an alternative operation with respect to the item in response to the alternative operation request.