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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, 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 Cisler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vincenzo De Marco, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, 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. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.