Patent ID: 9280544
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata, the method comprising: defining a metadata association rule for a metadata associator, the metadata association rule specifying a data value to be associated with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource, the data value defined independently from a file system with which the resource is associated; providing a user interface for associating a resource with the metadata associator; and in response to the resource being associated with the metadata associator via the user interface, determining whether a metadata field associated with the resource with which the data value is to be associated contains data that is equivalent to the data value and automatically associating the data value with the resource as metadata based on the metadata association rule only in response to determining that the metadata field does not contain data that is equivalent to the data value.