Techniques for Managing Persistent Document Collections

• US 20160217134A1
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Gur-esh, Ethan, Fink, Nathan, Friesenhahn, Dustin, Ramkumar, Nithya, FitzGerald, Maura J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,740,693 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions

Abstract

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing persistent document collections. A data store is used for storing one or more persistent document collections. A content management application is used for managing documents for users, for creating one or more persistent document collections of a sub-set of the documents upon user request, and for storing the one or more persistent document collections in the data store. Users can create one or more persistent document collections from a sub-set of the documents. Users can also modify the one or more persistent document collections. A requested portion of one or more persistent document collections can be output upon request from an external application so that the external application can download one or more of the documents that are represented by the persistent document collection for further modification by the user.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A computer-implemented method comprising:

accessing, via an application, a persistent document collection comprising a plurality of documents, the persistent document collection having a first attribute to identify the application and a second attribute to specify an amount of disk space measured in a multiple of bits or multiple of bytes allocated to the persistent document collection;

retrieving, via the application, a list of at least one document belonging to the persistent document collection; and

retrieving, via the application, a document from the persistent document collection.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 further comprising updating the document using a revised version of the document, the revised version of the document belonging to the persistent document collection.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 further comprising transmitting a control directive to add a document to the persistent document collection.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 further comprising transmitting a control directive to remove a document from the persistent document collection.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 wherein the list of at least one document includes all documents which belong to the persistent document collection.

26. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 further comprising transmitting a control directive to synchronize a document belonging to the persistent document collection with a file residing on a computer.

27. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 further comprising scheduling a synchronization at a later time between a document belong to the persistent document collection and a file residing on a computer.

28. A system for making use of persistent document collections comprising:

a data storage device;

an application, executing on a processing unit, to access a persistent document collection comprising a plurality of documents, the persistent document collection having a first attribute to identify the application and a second attribute to specify an amount of disk space measured in a multiple of bits or multiple of bytes allocated to the persistent document collection; and

the application, executing on the processing unit, to retrieve a list of at least one document belonging to the persistent document collection, retrieve a document from the persistent document collection, and store the document in the data storage device.

29. The system of claim 28, the application to update the document using a revised version of the document, the revised version of the document belonging to the persistent document collection.

30. The system of claim 28, the application to transmit a control directive to add a document to the persistent document collection.

31. The system of claim 28, the application to transmit a control directive to remove a document from the persistent document collection.

32. The system of claim 28, the list of at least one document to include all documents which belong to the persistent document collection.

33. The system of claim 28, the application to transmit a control directive to synchronize a document belonging to the persistent document collection with a file residing on a computer.

34. The system of claim 28, the application to schedule a synchronization at a later time between a document belong to the persistent document collection and a file residing on a computer.

35. A computer storage memory device having computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to:

access, via an application, a persistent document collection comprising a plurality of documents, the persistent document collection having a first attribute to identify the application and a second attribute to specify an amount of disk space measured in a multiple of bits or multiple of bytes allocated to the persistent document collection;

retrieve, via the application, a list of at least one document belonging to the persistent document collection; and

retrieve, via the application, a document from the persistent document collection.

36. The device of claim 35 further comprising computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing the computer to update the document using a revised version of the document, the revised version of the document belonging to the persistent document collection.

37. The device of claim 35 further comprising computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing the computer to transmit a control directive to add a document to the persistent document collection.

38. The device of claim 35 further comprising computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing the computer to transmit a control directive to remove a document from the persistent document collection.

39. The device of claim 35 wherein the list of at least one document includes all documents which belong to the persistent document collection.

40. The device of claim 35 further comprising computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing the computer to transmit a control directive to synchronize a document belonging to the persistent document collection with a file residing on a computer.