Apple Inc.

Other

Peter McInerney

Pavel Cisler

Dominic Benjamin Giampaolo

Eric Weiss

Eric A Weiss

Yan J Arrouye

David Joshua Hart

Robert R Ulrich

John M Hornkvist

Max E McFarland

David Anthony Lyons

Patrick Earl McClaughry

Brent Knight

Dave Lyons

Daniel Walkowski

Wayne Loofburrow

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for searching for and presenting backups. A first search result including a first version of an item is presented. The first version is associated with a first date range having a first start date and a first end date. User input requesting that an archive including one or more versions of the item be searched is received. A second search result including a second version of the item is presented. The second version is different from the first version. The second version is associated with a second date range having a second start date and a second end date. The second date range does not overlap with the first date range.

Searching and restoring of backups

Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes initiating a backup operation of data including a plurality of items, interrupting the backup operation, where interrupting occurs after a portion of the data has been completed, receiving an input to resume the backup operation, identifying a previously completed portion of the backup data, and performing a backup of a remaining uncompleted portion of the backup data. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, computer program products, and computer readable media.

Manipulating electronic backups

Systems and methods are provided for performing backup operations while a user is using a device. In one implementation, a method is provided. A backup operation of data including a plurality of related items is initiated. Modifications to one or more items of the plurality of related items are monitored for during the backup operation. The backup operation is completed. If a modification occurred to one or more items, a second backup operation is performed for the modified items.

Consistent backup of electronic information

Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes displaying a current view, initiating a history view, the history view including two or more visual representations of corresponding earlier versions of the current view, identifying a selection of an item in a visual representation, receiving an input to delete the selected item, and deleting each instance of the selected item in the history view. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, computer program products, and computer readable media.

Deletion in electronic backups

Systems and methods are provided for event notification. In one implementation, a method is provided. A determination is made as to whether a threshold associated with pending event notifications has been exceeded by an incoming event notification. A plurality of pending event notifications that can be combined are identified. Two or more event notifications are combined.

Event notification management

Consistent back up of electronic information

Adaptive techniques for handling notifications and updating a directory of a file system in a graphical user interface of a computing environment are disclosed. The adaptive techniques include receiving a notification that at least something has been potentially changed in the node. A current time value of the notification is obtained, and a preferred time value or trigger time for responding to the notification is calculated. In a preferred embodiment, the preferred time value is calculated by adding an adjustment or incremental value to a recorded time of the last synchronization performed on the directory. The adjustment or incremental value is preferably calculated by weighting a duration of one or more synchronizations performed on the directory. The adaptive techniques then compare the current time value to the trigger time. If the current time is greater than the trigger time, the Finder and the directory are synchronized. Otherwise, a timer is set to the trigger time, and synchronization of the Finder and the directory is delayed until the trigger time.

Adaptive service for handling notifications and synchronizing directories of a file system

Internet location objects are created and displayed as icons in a graphical user interface environment. When an object is dragged from within an application into a system window, a drag object describing what is being dragged is passed from the application to the operating system. Depending on the drag object, the file manager either causes an Internet location object to be created directly or intelligently parses a text string that has been dragged and dropped onto the user desktop to determine whether the text string is likely a URL. If a text string is found to likely be a URL, then an Internet location object is created to contain a URL by transforming the text string into the URL. When the user 'opens' an Internet location object, a browser or other program is launched and retrieves the resource identified by the URL stored as part of the Internet location object.

Creation and manipulation of internet location objects in a graphical user interface environment

Systems and methods are provided for searching. In one implementation, a method is provided. A current view of a search application is displayed in a user interface. The current view of the search application includes a search result including one or more elements. A first user input is received while the current view of a search application is displayed. The first user input requests that a history view associated with the current view of the search application be displayed. The history view includes search results based on a search of system data from an archive. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including search results having a first item not present in the one or more elements.

Searching a backup archive

Internet location objects are created and displayed as icons in a graphical user interface (GUI) environment. Internet location objects may be manipulated by the user in similar fashion as other GUI objects, e.g., files, folders, aliases, etc. When an object is dragged from within an application into a system window, a drag object describing what is being dragged in passed from the application to the operating system. An application may be aware of Internet location objects and, when an object is dragged from within the application into the system window, may specify that the object being dragged is a URL. Alternatively, the application may be unaware of or not support Internet locations but support generic text drag-and-drop, in which case the application, instead of specifying a &ldquo;URL drag flavor,&rdquo; specifies a &ldquo;text drag flavor&rdquo; as part of the drag object. Depending on the drag flavor, the file manager either causes an Internet location object (URL drag flavor) to be created directly or intelligently parses a text string that has been dragged and dropped onto the user desktop to determine is the text string is likely a URL (text drag flavor). If a text string specified as part of a text flavor drag object is found to likely be a URL, then an Internet location object is created. Otherwise, a different behavior is followed, e.g., a &ldquo;clipping&rdquo; object or other object may be created. When the user &ldquo;opens&rdquo; an Internet location object, a browser or other assigned program is launched and retrieves the resource identified by the URL stored as part of the Internet location object. The resource may be located remotely or may be located on the local user machine. In particular, a URL can refer to resources that are not &ldquo;on the net&rdquo; (and which do not represent cached net resources). For example, URLs can be used to refer to files or directories on hard drives attached to a user machine independently of whether the machine is or has ever been attached to a network. URLs can thus serve a function very similar to aliases.

A locking scheme is provided to arbitrate thread access to file system objects. This locking scheme allows multiple threads simultaneous access to file system objects for certain concurrently compatible operations, while forbidding concurrently incompatible operations. Separate types of locks are provided for hierarchical relationships between objects and the contents (e.g., data) of the objects themselves.

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Peter McInerney