Patent ID: 7409644

Claim:
In a computer system with a display and a memory for storing items, a method for presenting collections of the items, comprising: creating a library to contain items with one or more specified metadata properties; automatically grouping items with the one or more specified metadata properties into the library into a plurality of groups; providing one or more tools for manipulating items in the library, wherein the groups of items are each contained within a different virtual folder associated with respective ones of the specified metadata properties, and the one or more tools includes a tool configured to copy additional items into one of the virtual folders responsive to associating another metadata property with the virtual folder; and a virtual address bar method for providing a virtual path to items stored in a computer file system using a virtual address bar, the virtual address bar method comprising: displaying a virtual address bar operable to include a first interactive segment, wherein the first interactive segment references items on the computer file system according to a corresponding filter for selecting items; and adding one or more additional interactive segment to the virtual address bar, wherein each additional interactive segment further restricts the items referenced by the preceding interactive segments; wherein the first interactive segment and the one or more additional interactive segments comprise a virtual path.