Patent 7,139,761 (the '761 patent) has been asserted by Leader Technologies, Inc. against Facebook, Inc. in a federal district court action alleging willful infringement. The '761 patent could pose a threat to numerous social network sites. This challenge is to determine whether the claims of the '761 patent are valid.
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Methods and systems for managing user information using a customized computer interface which is user centric and geared toward creating and managing a personal information portal. In one aspect, the invention provides computerized methods for organizing a representation of user activities and information and navigating through an information management system that utilizes the representation. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 7366990 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Assignee: C-Sam, Inc. |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | (1) col 4, ln 55-67; (2) col 5 |
| URL | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
| Publication Date | January 19, 2001 |
| Additional Information | Date listed is filing date |
Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
(1) col 4, ln 55-67 - The method creates a plurality of spheres corresponding to user activities and information in the user's life. For each sphere, user activities and information are identified and universes corresponding to the user activities and information are created. Personalities corresponding to an individual associated with the user and the user's activities and information are created. Relationships, such as a child, parent, or jump relationship, may then be established among the spheres, universes, and personalities. A notebook may then be associated with each universe, where notebooks organize characteristics that make up the universe's activities and information as well as provide access to software applications relating to the universe's activities and information.
(2) col 5, ln 15-26 - Similarly, the invention also provides a method for creating a personal portal of activities and information on a networked computer. The method comprises receiving a representation of activities and information from an external source, storing the representation on the networked computer, displaying the representation on a web page in response to a request by a privileged user, offering at least one networked based application tools t process the representation of activities and information, and synchronizing the representation of the networked computer with a different representation of activities and information on the local computer of the privileged user.
(3) col 8, ln 12-19 - As shown in FIG. 4, in an illustrative embodiment of Karma 100, operators 401 fall into four main groups: communication 402, management 403, history 404, and search 405. When an operation is performed on a data object, a transaction is kept in a database in the transactions database 106. The transaction includes the data object acted upon, the operation performed, and the date and time of the event.
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Managing data with plural user environments
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: generating a plurality of user environments in a web-based system; ordering two or more of the plurality of user environments according to different arrangements of the user environments; providing a plurality of applications for generating and processing data in the user environments, data of a user environment is dynamically associated with the user environment in metadata that corresponds to the data; creating an association of the data with a second user environment when the data is accessed from the second user environment; dynamically storing the association of the data and the second user environment in the metadata; storing in a storage component ordering information related to the ordering of the two or more of the plurality of user environments; and traversing the different arrangements of the user environments with one or more of the applications based on the ordering information to locate the data associated with the user environments.
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Context component of web-based server
A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data, comprising: a computer-implemented context component of a web-based server for defining a first user workspace of the web-based server, assigning one or more applications to the first user workspace, capturing context data associated with user interaction of a user while in the first user workspace, and for dynamically storing the context data as metadata on a storage component of the web-based server, which metadata is dynamically associated with data created in the first user workspace; and a computer-implemented tracking component of the web-based server for tracking change information associated with a change in access of the user from the first user workspace to a second user workspace, and dynamically storing the change information on the storage component as part of the metadata, wherein the user accesses the data from the second user workspace.
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Managing data via computer-executable acts
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: creating data within a user environment of a web-based computing platform via user interaction with the user environment by a user using an application, the data in the form of at least files and documents; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on a storage component of the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user, the data, the application, and the user environment; tracking movement of the user from the user environment of the web-based computing platform to a second user environment of the web-based computing platform; and dynamically updating the stored metadata with an association of the data, the application, and the second user environment wherein the user employs at least one of the application and the data from the second environment.
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Server-based data management
A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data, comprising: computer-implemented means for creating data by interaction of a user within a user workspace of a server using an application; computer-implemented means for associating metadata with the data, the metadata stored in association with the data on storage means of the server, the metadata includes information related to a user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; computer-implemented means for tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the server; and computer-implemented means for dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user can employ the application and data from the second user workspace.
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Network-based system for facilitating data management
A computer-implemented network-based system that facilitates management of data, comprising: a computer-implemented context component of the network-based system for capturing context information associated with user-defined data created by user interaction of a user in a first context of the network-based system, the context component dynamically storing the context information in metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and metadata stored on a storage component of the network-based system; and a computer-implemented tracking component of the network-based system for tracking a change of the user from the first context to a second context of the network-based system and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, wherein the user accesses the data from the second context.
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Computer storage of data management
A computer-readable medium for storing computer-executable instructions for a method of managing data, the method comprising: creating data related to user interaction of a user within a user workspace of a web-based computing platform using an application; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the web-based computing platform; dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user employs the application and data from the second user workspace; and indexing the data created in the user workspace such that a plurality of different users can access the data via the metadata from a corresponding plurality of different user workspaces.
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