Patent ID: 7421438
Filing Date: 2008-09-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system having computer executable instructions embodied on a computer readable storage medium that when executed on one or more processors facilitates metadata management, comprising: a property component that facilitates access to one or more property items, the one or more property items comprising at least one property item with custom user configured setting and at least one property item with a default setting; a viewing component that presents the one or more property items; a synchronization component that synchronizes communication between the property component and the viewing component to facilitate the instantaneous update of changes between the property component and the viewing component; wherein when a user has both a property pane and a browser window open, a change made to the property pane is automatically reflected immediately to the browser window, and a change made in the browser window is automatically reflected immediately in the property pane; and wherein a Save Ghost feature provides a Ghost that is used as a visual depiction of a file being saved and upon a user selecting the Ghost and placing the Ghost on a cluster of files in the view window having a common value for a particular property, the common value for the particular property will be applied to the file represented by the Ghost.