Techniques to manage universal file descriptor models for content files

• US 9,047,300 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2012
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Rajabi, Zeyad, Zheng, Oliver, Smith, Andrew, Wood, Matthew, Douglas, Malia, Troy, Robin, Cockerill, Ashley B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Corrielus, Jean M
• Application Number:
  US13/479,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318133A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 707/821, 707/736, 707/687, 707/624, 707/748, 707/769
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/137 Hash-based content-based indexing of textual data G06F16/31
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• 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

Abstract

Techniques to manage universal file descriptor models for content files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a file descriptor application operative on the processor circuit to manage file descriptors for content files, the file descriptor application arranged to generate a file descriptor for a content file in accordance with a universal file descriptor model, the universal file descriptor model to comprise a file descriptor surface with multiple file descriptor tiles to present corresponding content parts from the content file, with at least one of the file descriptor tiles defining a content part class representing homogeneous content parts from heterogeneous content file types. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit; and

a file descriptor application operative on the processor circuit to manage file descriptors for content files, the file descriptor application arranged to generate a file descriptor for a content file in accordance with a universal file descriptor model, the universal file descriptor model to comprise a file descriptor surface with multiple file descriptor tiles to present corresponding content parts from the content file, with at least one of the file descriptor tiles defining a content part class representing homogeneous content parts from heterogeneous content file types, the file descriptor application further operative to generate the file descriptor from one or more extracted content parts from the content file based on the universal file descriptor model.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the file descriptor application comprising a file descriptor model component operative to retrieve the universal file descriptor model.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content part class defines a common attribute, property or characteristic of the homogeneous content parts.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content part class comprises a text class including a heading, a source name, content, time, main heading, main source name, event name, event host name, event time, or event location.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content part class comprises an image class including a source image, a single image, multiple images, or an event image.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, the file descriptor application comprising a file descriptor extractor component operative to extract one or more content parts from the content file based on the universal file descriptor model.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, the file descriptor application comprising a file descriptor assembly component operative to generate the file descriptor from one or more extracted content parts from the content file based on the universal file descriptor model.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, the file descriptor application comprising a file descriptor model component operative to retrieve the universal file descriptor model from a class of universal file descriptor models.

9. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a file descriptor request to generate a file descriptor for a content file;

retrieving a universal file descriptor model for the content file, the universal file descriptor model to comprise a file descriptor surface with multiple file descriptor tiles to present corresponding content parts from the content file, with at least one of the file descriptor tiles defining a content part class representing homogeneous content parts from heterogeneous content file types, the content part class comprising a defined portion of multimedia information; and

generating, by a processor circuit, the file descriptor or file descriptor construct information for the content file in accordance with the universal file descriptor model, including generating the file descriptor from one or more extracted content parts from the content file.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, comprising retrieving the universal file descriptor model from a class of universal file descriptor models.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, comprising extracting one or more content parts from the content file based on the universal file descriptor model.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, comprising generating file descriptor construct information for use by a client application to generate the file descriptor for the content file, the file descriptor construct information comprising the universal file descriptor model and one or more extracted content parts from the content file.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, comprising generating file descriptor construct information for use by a client application to generate the file descriptor for the content file, the file descriptor construct information comprising a file descriptor model identifier for the universal file descriptor model, one or more file descriptor tile identifiers for file descriptor tiles of the universal file descriptor model, and one or more content part identifiers for extracted content parts from the content file corresponding to the file descriptor tiles.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, comprising sending a file descriptor response with the file descriptor or the file descriptor construct information to a client application.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions when executed by one or more processors cause a system to:

retrieve a universal file descriptor model for a content file, the universal file descriptor model to comprise a file descriptor surface with multiple file descriptor tiles to present corresponding content parts from the content file, with at least one of the file descriptor tiles defining a content part class representing homogeneous content parts from heterogeneous content file types; and

generate the file descriptor for the content file using one or more extracted content parts from the content file based on the universal file descriptor model.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to retrieve the universal file descriptor model from a class of universal file descriptor models.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to extract one or more content parts from the content file based on the universal file descriptor model.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the content part class comprises a text class or an image class.