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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2009
Ramesh Vasudevan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Percy Mehta, Foster City, CA (US);
Ramesh Vasudevan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Percy Mehta, Foster City, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer that is programmed with collaboration software receives a new value of an attribute (or property or characteristic) which is specific to a label (or tag or category) as applied to an object managed by the computer. The computer does not use the new value to overwrite a corresponding old value in existing metadata. Instead, the computer is programmed to hold the new value in an incremental label application for the object. The computer is further programmed to respond to a request for the object's label application, by retrieving the incremental label application, and a full application of said label to said object. The computer uses attribute values in the incremental label application to update corresponding attribute values in a copy of the full label application, in a time sequence based on the time of creation of incremental label applications, thereby to generate a current label application.