公开(公告)号：WO2006004670A3

公开(公告)日：2006-01-12

申请号：PCT/US2005/022748

申请日：2005-06-24

Applicant: APPLE COMPUTER, INC ,  ARROUYE, Yan ,  GIAMPAOLO, Dominic ,  ORDING, Bas ,  CHRISTIE, Gregory ,  LEMAY, Stephen Olivier ,  VAN OS. Marcel ,  CHAUDHRI, Imran ,  TIENE, Kevin ,  CISLER, Pavel

Inventor： ARROUYE, Yan ,  GIAMPAOLO, Dominic ,  ORDING, Bas ,  CHRISTIE, Gregory ,  LEMAY, Stephen Olivier ,  VAN OS. Marcel ,  CHAUDHRI, Imran ,  TIENE, Kevin ,  CISLER, Pavel

IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.