Patent Document ID: 7747557
Application ID: 11326583

Base Claim:
1. A method for obtaining other documents of an operating system file storage via flags, the method comprising: providing a flag library storage that includes a plurality of pregenerated flags that include metadata indicating a flag type, wherein the flag library is stored independently of any document files, wherein the plurality of flags are independent of any document file type; providing a file storage accessible from an operating system of a computing device, wherein the file system includes a plurality of document files having a plurality of file types based on a plurality of respective applications associated with the operating system; providing an operating system user interface; receiving a selection in the operating system user interface of at least one of the document files in the file system; identifying, in association with the at least one selected document file, flag type metadata stored with the selected document file that points to the flag library storage, wherein the flag type metadata points to at least one flag applied to the selected document file and at least one flag applied to an individual document object embedded within the at least one selected document file; searching the file storage for any document files related to the at least one flag applied to the selected document file; searching the file storage for any individual document objects related to the at least one flag applied to the individual document object; populating the operating system user interface with icons of: any other documents files having a flag related to the at least one flag applied to the selected document file, and any other individual document objects having a flag related to the at least one flag applied to the individual document object.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operating system user interface is a different user interface than any user interface association with any of the respective applications.