US 6,651,063 B1
Data organization and management system and methodGeneral
US 6,651,063 B1
Data organization and management system and method
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Kim Vu
Art Unit:
2172 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Inventors:
Andrei G. Vorobiev
Assignee:
Priority:
01/28/00
Filed:
01/28/00
Granted:
11/18/03
Expiration:
01/28/20
Abstract
An information storage and management system pre-categorizes information in generic categories to which the information generally pertains, to facilitate organization of information with little or no effort on the part of the recipient. Providers send information to user data repositories associated with unique user destination addresses within the system. Identifiers associated with the information allow the recipient to easily assess the nature of the information and conduct further processing of the information if desired. At least one of the identifiers associated with the information is a category identifier, used to place the information in a location within the user data repository reserved for information in that given identified category. One of the ways in which the recipient can further process the information is to place the information in a custom location according to a custom category location within the user data repository. Such custom categorization can further be communicated to the provider or to a data processing station so that subsequent information from the same provider to the same recipient is automatically placed in the custom category location within the user data repository.