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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1999
John O. Lamping, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael P. Salisbury, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A document management system A is employed to provide arbitrary properties to documents , such that the hierarchical constraints of previous file systems are avoided. An interface is provided for visualizing document properties and a location of the documents within an organized arrangement. A repository C holds documents and the attached properties. A first containment structure is designed to portray representations of documents in the repository having a first property type. A second containment structure is provided to portray representations of documents in the repository having a second property type. Within the first containment structure is a first document having a first property type. A movement mechanism is designed to move the representation of the first document , stored in the first containment structure to a location in the second containment structure . A property analyzer senses operation of the movement mechanism and analyzes properties attached to the first document when the representation of the first document is to be moved into the second containment structure. A property changer alters at least one of the properties of the first document based on information received from the property analyzer . By this arrangement, a user may generate a structure of document organization in a system which separates a document's content and the properties of a document.