FILE SYSTEM

• US 20110113035A1
• Filed: 03/10/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Manjunath, Geetha, Gupta, Ajay
• Granted Patent: US 9,256,608 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/741
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, comprising a personal file system module for determining a file system folder structure based upon a user profile and mapping user content stored on one or more storage devices to one or more folders of the file system.

Claims

1. A computer system, comprising:

a personal file system module for determining a file system folder structure based upon a user profile and mapping user content stored on one or more storage devices to one or more folders of the file system.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the personal file system module includes a user profiling component which generates the user profile having a hierarchical structure by analysing user content.

3. The computer system of claim 2, wherein the user profiling component generates the hierarchical user profile with respect to a reference set of topics.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the personal file system module includes a user-content mapping component for mapping the user content to one or more folders of the file system based upon one or more topics associated with each item of user content.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the personal file system module includes a file system sharing component arranged for integrating a folder structure of a second file system with the first file system folder structure.

6. The computer system of claim 5, wherein the file system sharing component is arranged to determine a similarity between folders of the second file system and those of the first file system and to arrange the folders of the second file system at locations determined according to the similarity.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the personal file system module dynamically updates the file system folder structure according to the user content.

8. A method of creating a folder structure of a file system, comprising:

determining, based upon a plurality of items of user content, a user profile indicating one or more topics;

determining a folder structure of a personal file system based upon the user profile; and

associating each of the plurality of items of user content with one or more folders of the file system.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising:

analysing the plurality of items of user content to determine the topics associated with the user content; and

mapping each item of user content to one or more folders of the file system based upon the one or more topics associated with each item of user content.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the topics are determined with respect to a reference set of topics.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the reference set of topics are obtained from a knowledge repository, and wherein each item of user content is compared against an index of the reference set of topics to determine one or more topics relevant to each item of the user content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the user profile is a hierarchical user profile based upon frequently occurring topics associated with the plurality of items of user content.

13. The method of claim 8, comprising integrating a second folder structure based upon a plurality of items of a second user'"'"'s content with the folder structure determined with respect to a first user'"'"'s content by determining a similarity between one or more folders in the first and second folder structures.

14. The method of claim 8, comprising dynamically updating the folder structure based upon the user content.

15. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, are arranged to perform the method of claim 8.