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Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yan Arrouye, Los Altos, CA (US);

Dominic Giampaolo, Lewiston, ME (US);

Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);

Gregory Christie, San Jose, CA (US);

Stephen Olivier Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Marcel van Os, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kevin Tiene, Cupertino, CA (US);

Pavel Cisler, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/38 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/38 (2019.01); Y10S 707/99933 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99934 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99935 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99939 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99943 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.


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