Patent ID: 7149729
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computer system having a display and a memory for storing items with metadata properties, a method of filtering items comprising: providing a plurality of display objects on the display that each represent one or more items, wherein one or more of the display objects comprises a virtual folder and each virtual folder includes a numerical representation of the number of items that the virtual folder contains; evaluating the metadata properties of the items that are represented by the display objects; dynamically generating a filter term that corresponds to a metadata property that is shared by a plurality of the items based on the evaluation of metadata properties; and presenting the filter term on the display, wherein the selection of the filter term causes the items that are represented on the display to be reduced to the items that share the metadata property and the numerical representation of each virtual folder to be correspondingly reduced.