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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2006
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dominic Giampaolo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Christie, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Olivier Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Tiene, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pavel Císler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dominic Giampaolo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Christie, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Olivier Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marcel van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Tiene, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pavel Císler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing data are provided. Data such as 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. A single search input is received and the search is performed through the metadata and content of the plurality of files and subset of the plurality of files stored on a user's data processing system. The search input is saved in a folder for performing future searches.