Patent ID: 7343365

Claim:
Context association software in a computer readable medium, comprising: a system activity monitor that monitors user activity on a user-operated computer, the user activities include at least one of search queries, opening of a file or document and modification of a file or document; a computer system database of metadata relating to objects stored or activities carried out on the computer; an association system that determines a degree of a strength of association between at least a pair of computer objects based at least in part upon metadata of each of the computer objects from the database of metadata; a chunking system that uses the degree of the strength of association determined by the association system for a set of objects and groups them into a number of sub-groups; an importance calculator that determines an importance ranking between a target computer object and one or more other computer objects based at least in part upon duration of user interactions, recency of interactions, immediacy of user responses, amount of copying, duplication and backups, and extent computer objects are shared; and a user interface system that utilizes information stored in the computer system database by the system activity monitor and information determined by the association system, the chunking system, and the importance calculator to display information relating to objects stored or activities carried out on the computer.