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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2006
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dominic Giampaolo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Carol, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Steve Zellers, Brookdale, CA (US);
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dominic Giampaolo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Carol, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Steve Zellers, Brookdale, CA (US);
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or index databases. In one exemplary method, a notification that an existing file has been modified or that a new file has been created is received by an indexing software component, which then, in response to the notification performs an indexing operation, where the notification is either not based solely on time or user input or the notification includes an identifier that identifies the file. Other methods in data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.