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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2004
Timothy P. Mckee, Seattle, WA (US);
Walter R. Smith, Seattle, WA (US);
Timothy P. McKee, Seattle, WA (US);
Walter R. Smith, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An electronic file system organizational structure is provided that allows for items to be organized in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). While items may be organized hierarchically as in a tree structure, items may also have multiple direct parents. The electronic file system may further have access to multiple different stores. In addition, various techniques for managing items as they are manipulated and re-organized across different stores are discussed. For example, techniques are discussed for managing an item that has multiple direct parents all in the same first store, where the item is moved or copied to a second different store. Certain of these techniques may more closely match a user's intentions and/or have predictable results from users' points of view. In doing so, actions performed on one organization do not affect other organizations in unexpected or unintended ways.