Patent ID: 7441194
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A Calendar-based interface software in a computer readable medium, comprising: a calendar system database of metadata relating to objects stored or metadata relating to user activities carried out on a user-operated computer; a system activity monitor that monitors system-wide user computer activity on the user-operated computer and automatically stores metadata associated with the monitored user activity in the calendar system database; a similarity system that determines a degree of similarity between at least a pair of computer files or objects; a chunking system that uses the degrees of similarity determined by the similarity system for a set of objects and groups them into a number of subgroups; and a calendar user interface system that utilizes information stored in the calendar system database by the system activity monitor, information determined by the similarity system and the chunking system to display in a calendar format time-based information relating to objects stored or activities carried out on the computer; and a metadata tagging interface included with the calendar user interface system comprising one or more metadata tokens generated based on the objects associated with the user activity and displayed on the calendar user interface, the metadata tagging interface is employed by a user to view, search, and assign the one or more metadata tokens to one or more of the objects by a graphical drag and drop operation in which the one or more tokens are dragged from a metadata pane and dropped onto the one or more objects currently being viewed.