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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2008
Kevin Scott Beyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Hui-i Hsiao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joshua Wai-ho Hui, San Jose, CA (US);
Ning LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Scott Beyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Hui-I Hsiao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joshua Wai-Ho Hui, San Jose, CA (US);
Ning Li, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A dynamic foldering system automatically manages the creation and deletion of run-time dynamic folders and selection of documents, items, or object graphs found in the run-time dynamic folders. The system comprises a query/predicate for a design-time folder group based on which dynamic folders are automatically managed, a variable binding mechanism, automatic identifications of dynamic folders containing a particular object, parallel navigation, and customized combination of foldering results. The dynamic folder hierarchy is defined by a hierarchy of design-time folder groups defined by a query/predicate on a document comprising structured or semi-structured data. Modifiable criteria for creating the dynamic folder hierarchy are provided by the user. Variable binding provides powerful query/predicate definitions on hierarchical data or graph-structured data. Given a document, the system automatically identifies which dynamic folders contain the document.