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Andrew Oram (over 4 years ago)
Regarding the instance of prior art (Patent App No 20020059278): I think it lacks the distinguishing element of user-created metadata. The claims in the prior art do not specify the means by which user selections are associated with material. The description in the prior art leaves the impression that the selection follows preselected field names, and I don't see anything about user-created metadata. The prior art is even broader and less defined than the application under discussion here.Eduard de Jong (over 4 years ago)
The MacOS X finder sinds its inception allows to set meta data on files and directories, which data can be searched. The meta data is actually called "spotlight comments" after the ui element that can retrieve these files and directories based on the meta data.
The apple picture management application iPhoto, where pictures are the UI elements, has since its inception (2002?) a meta data field that can be filled by a user with arbitrary values to characterise a particular image and which can be used to reorganize the presentation of the pictures. User chosen mete data is a major aspect of iPhoto's UI features subsequent versions providing enhanced support for further types of meta data, including in the latest version associating names with faces.
Even further back, in UNIX sytsem 7 (ca 1976) the text based UI primarily was concerned with files and directories. A unix file in UNIX vs 7 is identified by its so called inode, and the file name is a user chosen meta data information chosen so that it can be, used by a user to easily find a file, possibly by several different names.
In light of this wide spread and well established use of meta data to organize a UI for a particular user I don't see how this patent has any novelty, at least not in its 1st claim (the one I looked at)Gostak Sakai (over 4 years ago)
This sounds very much like what could be done with Hypercard, a software program for the early Macintosh computer.
Defining the cards allowed you to enter fields that could be entered, data to be accessed, controls to be added and the order in which cards were accessed, all under the control of the user.PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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