Patent Document ID: 9495335
Application ID: 12887406

Base Claim:
1. A method for applying tags to files of a file system, the method comprising: operating at least one programmed processor to carry out a series of acts, the series of acts being identified by executable instructions with which the at least one programmed processor is programmed, the series of acts comprising: first detecting, while information regarding one or more files is displayed in a computing interface, a user selection of at least one particular file of the one or more files; second detecting, following the first detecting of the user selection and while the information regarding the one or more files is displayed in the computing interface, a computing interface input of one or more characters from the user, each of the one or more characters in the computing interface input corresponding to successive characters of a desired tag to be applied to the at least one particular file; and in response to the first detecting and the second detecting following the first detecting, automatically entering a tagging mode of the computing interface without further user interaction, other than the user selection of the at least one particular file and the computing interface input of the one or more characters, displaying an indication that tagging is active, upon entering the tagging mode, and utilizing the computing interface input to generate a tag to be applied to the at least one particular file, the generated tag being one of a plurality of different tags to be applied to the at least one particular file via the tagging mode, all of the plurality of different tags having coexisting associations, as coexistent tags, with the at least one particular file, and determining at least one suggested tag based at least in part on the input from the user, the at least one suggested tag including at least some of the input; and displaying in the window the at least one suggested tag to be applied to the at least one particular file.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first detecting of the user selection of the at least one particular file while the information regarding the one or more files is displayed in the computing interface comprises first detecting the user selection while metadata regarding files that are stored in a folder of a file system is displayed in the computing interface.