Currently, the only mechanisms available to a user to group together like content is through folder creation or through the creation of a label. In one instance, traditional email clients allow a user to create a folder and move content into the folder. However, this folder is outside the inbox, thus demoting the importance of said messages. Further, the folder structure is everlasting and remains a fixture in a navigational pane of an email client, which can clog up a mailbox of a user. Folder structures can also complicate a user interface of an email client, especially when users access an email client through a mobile device, which has limited display space. Furthermore, limitations with folder structures exist when there are other users that content is to be shared with. With folder structures, the other users are required to manually access a folder and do not receive automatic content updates. In alternative instances a label can be created for management of content. However, labels work like folders and have the same issues as described above. Labels are not ephemeral, have sharing limitations and have the potential to clog up the user interface and mailbox history of an email client.
As such, examples of the present application are directed to the general technical environment related to improving operation of an email service, where processing efficiency and usability are improved, among technical benefits.
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe content bundle creation, where a user can create an exemplary bundle of content through an application/service. As an example, a bundle of content may be a bundle of emails created by a user through an exemplary email service. A first input may be received through a user interface of an email service. The first input associates a first email thread with one or more additional emails threads. A second input may be received through the user interface. The second input provides a tag to associate with the first email thread and the one or more additional email threads. An exemplary bundle of emails may be generated. The bundle of emails may comprise the first email thread, the one or more additional email threads and an association with the tag. The bundle of emails may be displayed inline in a mailbox of an email service.
This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter. Additional aspects, features, and/or advantages of examples will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.
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Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe content bundle creation, where a user can create an exemplary bundle of content through an application/service. As an example, an exemplary bundle of content may be a bundle of emails associated with an email service. Exemplary bundles of content provide an alternative solution to folder/label solutions, where bundles of content are ephemeral in nature and can be presented inline with other content (e.g. email content) of an application/service (e.g. email service). While examples herein relate to creation of bundled content from an application/service, it is to be understood that examples described herein may extend to any aspect for management of bundled content including but not limited to: user-creation of a bundle of content, sharing of a created bundle of content, automatic generation (e.g. auto-bundling) of content on behalf of a user, enhanced search and filtering functionality for content (including bundled content) and generation of rich content previews for bundles of content. Other aspects related to management of bundled content may be provided in related co-pending applications.
One or more data stores/storages or other memory may be associated with system 100. For example, a component of system 100 may have one or more data storage(s) 112 (described below) associated therewith. Data associated with a component of system 100 may be stored thereon as well as processing operations/instructions executed by a component of system 100. Furthermore, it is presented that application components of system 100 may interface with other application services. Application services may be provided as platform resources referenced in the foregoing. Application services may be any resource that may extend functionality of one or more components of system 100. Application services may include but are not limited to: personal intelligent assistant services, web search services, e-mail applications, word processing applications, spreadsheet applications, presentation applications, notes applications, calendaring applications, device management services, address book services, informational services, line-of-business (LOB) management services, customer relationship management (CRM) services, debugging services, accounting services, payroll services and services and/or websites that are hosted or controlled by third parties, among other examples. Application services may further include other websites and/or applications hosted by third parties such as social media websites; photo sharing websites; video and music streaming websites; search engine websites; sports, news or entertainment websites, and the like. Application services may further provide analytics, data compilation and/or storage service, etc., in association with components of system 100.
System 100 may comprise one or more storage(s) 112 that may store data associated with operation of one or more components of system 100. In examples, storage(s) 112 may interface with other components of system 100. Data associated with any component of system 100 may be stored in storage(s) 112, where components may be connected to storage(s) 112 over a distributed network including cloud computing platforms and infrastructure services. Exemplary storage(s) 112 may be any of a first-party source, a second-party source, and a third-party source. Storage(s) 112 are any physical or virtual memory space. Storage(s) 112 may store any data for processing operations performed by components of system 100, retained data from processing operations, stored programs, code or application programming interfaces (APIs), training data, links to resources internal and external to system 100 and knowledge data among other examples. Furthermore, in examples, components of system 100 may utilize knowledge data in processing by components of system 100. Knowledge may be used by one or more components of system 100 to improve processing of any of the email service components 106 where knowledge data can be obtained from resources internal or external to system 100. In examples, knowledge data may be maintained in storage(s) 112 or retrieved from one or more resources external to system 100 by knowledge fetch operation.
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The processing device 102 may execute processing operations that include an ability to access an application/service through a user account. In one example, processing device 102 may connect an authenticated user to an exemplary application/service that stores user data for one or more users of the application/service. For example, a user, utilizing processing device 102, may access an email service, where the email service may authenticate a user account of the user. The email service may access a mailbox management component 110 (of the email service components 106) to provide, to the processing device 102, a representation of a mailbox (of the email service) that is associated with the user account of the user.
An exemplary storage application/service may provide a user of processing device 102 with access to data stored in an exemplary data center. In one example, processing device 102 may be connected with storage(s) 112 via a distributed network, which may provide users with access to user data. One or more tenant resources (e.g. Tenant Resource A, Tenant Resource B, Tenant Resource C, etc.) may be associated with processing device 102. A tenant resource may be a user account associated with a processing device and/or distributed network service. Data associated with a tenant resource may be stored on storage(s) 112, where a tenant account can be utilized to access stored data by processing device 102 and/or other processing devices. Email service components 106 are components configured to execute processing operations to enable creation, sharing and management of a bundle of emails within an exemplary email service that is executing on client computing device 102. While examples described herein reference bundling of emails in an email service, it is to be understood that examples described herein are not limited to bundling of emails (of an email service) and may extend to any type of data bundling that can be used to replace folders/labels for bundling data for a service. The email service components 106 are executed by one or more computing devices. An exemplary computing device may comprise one or more processors and memory, among other components. Examples of computing devices are provided in the description of at least
The bundle creation component 108 is configured to enable user to create, customize and manage an exemplary bundle. Custom bundles (e.g. bundles of emails) are a light-weight mechanism for managing associations between content (e.g. emails where a bundle of emails may be created). A bundle can be defined as an automatic of manually set grouping of like items. As an example, a bundle may be created to group two or more email messages of an email service, creating a bundle of emails. An exemplary bundle of emails may comprise a grouping of at least two separate email threads. The bundle of emails may further comprise an exemplary tag, providing an association to an entity type tagging structure. An exemplary entity type tagging structure can be utilized to classify emails of an email service including bundled emails. Data associated with the entity type tagging structure (including an exemplary tag) is further used to assist with searching and filtering of email data including bundles of emails that are provided through an email service.
An exemplary tag is used to associate email messages and content of the bundle (e.g. bundle of emails). The tag associates an email message (and/or other content) with one or more additional email (and/or other content). In one example, an exemplary tag is a hashtag. However, tags are not limited to such a form. Created tags become entity values that can be used to efficiently associate emails of a bundle. Tags further become entity data that can be used to prioritize searching and retrieval of created bundles. In some instances, tags may remain associated with a bundle even when a message is separated from a bundle. This may assist users with being able to quickly relocate an email during a subsequent search. In alternative examples, an email that was previously associated with a bundle and later removed may not retain an association to an exemplary tag.
A bundle of emails is tagged with the bundle name/tag ID as part of an entity type tagging infrastructure. In one example, an entity type tagging infrastructure may be used for the assignment and management of tags associated with bundles of emails. That is, an entity type tagging structure may be generated for specific emails included in a bundle of emails. The entity type tagging structure may comprise a plurality of fields that are configured by developers, where data of the entity type tagging infrastructure can be utilized for management of content associated with a bundle including searching and filtering of bundles of content and sharing of bundled content. Attributes and fields associated with an exemplary entity type tagging infrastructure may vary based on the type of email content. In further examples, an entity type tagging infrastructure may be used for classification of any type of emails including emails not included in a bundle of emails as data from an entity type tagging infrastructure may be utilized to increase accuracy in classifying emails as a specific type or category. An exemplary categorization for a bundle of emails may be useful for back-end processing performed by the email service including: analysis of the bundle of emails (including content of the bundle of emails), generation of a representation of an exemplary mailbox, generation of recommendations/suggestions for a user, telemetry analysis for the email service and/or other associated applications/services, and other aspects of management of bundled content (e.g. sharing, searching/filtering, generation of rich content previews, etc.) among other examples. Examples of data fields that may be included in an exemplary entity type tagging infrastructure comprise but are not limited to: context fields pertaining to specific data of an email, tag/hashtag fields, email type fields, category fields, entity data fields, data source fields, date/timestamp information, hyperlink data fields, domain information fields, formatting/arrangement fields, confidence scores pertaining to classification and specific attributes of an email, data pertaining to specific email content and user triage action history with respect to specific messages (e.g. emails) and/or a category/type for the specific message, among other examples.
An exemplary bundle is contextually relevant and presented inline with other emails of a user mailbox. An email service is configured to create bundles of content on behalf of a user based on meaningful categories for the user/groups of users. This is a better solution than folders, labels or setting of email rules because a created bundle is ephemeral in nature. Bookmarked links such as folders/labels are not required to be created within a navigational pane of a user interface of an email service. Further, bundled content is automatically updated and intelligently managed by an email service, where bundled content can be automatically updated based on changes to message content associated with a user mailbox. If the topic item becomes irrelevant, a bundle would drop off (e.g. de-prioritize), but the bundle structure would still remain intact allowing for a bundle to be found later without requiring a physical link to be created and managed within a navigational pane of an email service (i.e. as with folders/labels). If a bundle receives a new message or update that may be relevant to a user (e.g. meeting appointment, tracking of shipment, notification, etc.), the bundle would be prioritized in a mailbox of a user. Notably, once a bundle is created in an email service, subsequent email messages from bundled message threads may result in update to the created bundle, where a user would not have to go looking for individual messages/message threads.
Additionally, an exemplary bundle of content may inherit all (or some) of the triage actions and behaviors associated with a single message. That is, an email service is configured to enable a user to execute bulk actions with respect to a bundle of content (e.g. bundle of emails). For instance, a user can delete a bundle of emails without being required to go in and execute actions on specific emails.
Consider an example where a user is attempting to management content associated with a house renovation. A user can create a content bundle entitled “House Reno” and place emails relating to the renovation of their home into a bundle of emails. As an example, an exemplary tag of “House Reno” may be created and associated with all content that is part of the bundle. For instance, a user may receive emails from different contractors and want to associate all received emails in one grouping without having to continually go searching for each individual email. Notably, once a bundle is created in an email service, subsequent email messages from bundled message threads may result in update to the created bundle, where a user would not have to go looking for individual messages/message threads from different contractors.
Further, an email service may be configured to evaluate new email messages/content to determine whether a bundle should be updated. For example, the bundle creation component 108 is configured to implement a bundling model (e.g. machine learning model) that can evaluate message content based on attributes of a created bundle to determine whether received emails (that may not be associated with a bundle) should be added to the bundle. Examples of attributes that may be evaluated by an exemplary bundling model comprise but are not limited to: sender domains associated with a bundle, other email recipients associated with bundled emails, email subject, keywords, references to specific content within bundled emails, categories/topics, exemplary tags, meeting invites/appointments, attachments, and flags/importance, among other examples. In analyzing such data, the bundling model collect, parsed and evaluate data in any form including: client side metrics associated with an emails service, user signal data (e.g. user usage history of the email service), server-side metrics as well as metrics related to cross-application usage (e.g. other applications/services associated with a user account that is accessing an email service). This enables the bundle creation component 108 to make a relevancy determination as to whether an email may be relevant to a bundle of emails.
In the example described above (e.g. “House Reno” bundle), an email message from a different contractor may be received that is not initially associated with the “House Reno” bundle. The bundle creation component 108 may apply an exemplary bundling model to determine whether to automatically include the new email in the bundle or provide a suggestion to the user to bundle. The bundle creation component 108 is further configured to easily enable a user to add new content to a created bundle. For instance, the new email from the contractor will show up in the inbox of the user, where the user, through an improved UI of the email service, can associate the new email with the created bundle. Examples for bundle creation and associating new content with a created bundle are subsequently described. In one instance, a user can drag and drop the email from the new contractor onto a created bundle to quickly and efficiently associate the new email with the bundle.
Furthermore, an exemplary bundle is configured to manage associations with other application/services such as platform resources that may comprise a suite of different applications. For instance, a user may have a calendared appoint setup with a specific contractor. Notifications and alerts associated with such content may presented to the user in conjunction with a created bundle. Subsequently described example refer to a rich content preview for the bundle, that is configured to provide, from a bundle of emails, information that is most relevant to the user. In one example, a rich content preview may comprise an indication of an upcoming calendared appointment with a specific contractor to pick out flooring for a kitchen. The rich content preview may further comprise links, images, information related to flooring options suggested in an email (of the bundle) by the contractor. The email service, through one or more of the email service components 106, may be configured to update rich content previews over time in a way that the previews are most relevant to a user or group of users.
Continuing the above “House Reno” example, once the house renovation project is over and the user ceases receiving new mails that would go into this bundle, the bundle falls below the fold, out of sight and out of mind. However, if for any reason the user later needs to reference an email in this bundle, a search will return all emails pertaining to this bundle. If a new email associated with the bundle is received at a later point in time, the bundle may be prioritized for the user in a mailbox of the user. For instance, a contractor may be late sending a receipt (e.g. 6 months or a year later), where the email service is configured to prioritize the bundle of emails when that receipt is received. If the user's attention moves on to another project the constitutes a bundle, this bundle is now at the top of the inbox and the other older bundles fall off and do not clog the navigational control of the email service. A user would not be required to manually remove folders/labels from the UI of the email service after the fact. As one example, the ephemeral nature of an exemplary bundle is extremely beneficial to workers/groups that change projects every couple months. Instead of having a massive list of hundreds of folders the represent the past projects, this user can have a clean and easy way to organize their content.
As described above, the bundle creation component 108 is configured to enable a user to create an exemplary bundle. A bundle may be created by a user of an email service, where the user is associated with a user account (e.g. for the email service or a universal account that enables a user to access a suite of platform resources that comprise a plurality of applications/services). A user interface (UI) of an exemplary email service is configured to enable users to create, share and management bundles of emails. An exemplary bundle of emails may be associated with one or more tags. For instance, tags can be user-created or created on behalf of a user by an exemplary email service. In one instance, a user can create a tag for a bundle to associate content. In one example, an email service UI provides one or more UI fields/features to enable a user to create a tag for a bundle of emails. In other examples, the email service is configured to automatically create and associate an exemplary tag with a bundle of emails on behalf of a user.
The bundle creation component 108 is configured to enable the user to create a bundle in a few different ways. Some UI examples for creation of a bundle of emails are provided in
Created bundles may be displayed inline with other messages of a mailbox of a user. The UI of an exemplary email service is configured to enable the bundles to be presented in different states including but not limited to: a collapsed state, a rich content preview state, an expanded state (e.g. providing a partial view of content of a bundle) and a maximized state (e.g. where all content of a bundle is viewable). Further, users can perform bulk actions on the bundles, such as mark as read, delete, and pin. To open a bundle, the user clicks anywhere on the bundle item and the messages expand below. The user can then click on the messages to access a specific item. A UI of an email service may further be configured to enable a user to execute hover actions to view message content or execute actions at a message level. Given that only the top x messages in the bundle are shown on expand, the user can select “see more” and more messages are loaded. If the user still has not reached the message they desire, they can select a UI feature “see all” to view all message content of a bundle. On the collapsed bundle state, a summary is shown depicting the top unseen messages. An exemplary email service may be configured to vary a state of presentation of a bundle based upon attributes such read/unread messages and seen/unseen content. For instance, color, emphasis (e.g. bolding/flagging), associated notifications, prioritization in a mailbox, etc. may vary based on a collective state of a bundle of emails.
The mailbox management component 110 is a component configured to manage email data associated with a user account of an email service and provide a representation of a mailbox (of the email service) that is associated with the user account of the user. The mailbox management component 110 may retrieve email data associated with the user account and generate a representation of a mailbox for the user. An exemplary representation of the mailbox may be provided through an email service (e.g. executing on a processing device such as processing device 102). Generation of a representation of a mailbox of a user is known to one skilled in the art. Moreover, the mailbox management component 110 may interface with the bundle creation component 108 to enable the bundle creation component 108 to access email data (associated with a user account) for creation of bundled content. Data associated with a created bundle of content (e.g. bundle of emails) may be shared between components of an email service including the bundle creation component 108 and the mailbox management component 110. For instance, data associated with a created bundle of emails may be shared with the mailbox management component 110 to include the bundle of emails in a generated representation of a mailbox of the email service.
Method 200 begins at processing operation 202, where a first input is received through a user interface of an email service. The first input associates a first email thread with one or more additional email threads. The first input may be an input to initiate creation of a bundle of emails as described in the description of the bundle creation component 108 (of
Flow may proceed to processing operation 204, where a user interface (UI) element is presented for a user to define an exemplary tag to associate with a bundle of emails. As an example, the UI element for defining an exemplary tag may be presented (processing operation 204) based on a receipt of the first input. As described in the foregoing, a user can create one or more tags for a bundle of emails. A user may enter an input into the UI element to define a tag for a bundle of emails. At processing operation 206, a second input may be received through the user interface where a user defines a tag to associate with the first email thread and the one or more additional email threads.
Flow may proceed to processing operation 208, where an exemplary bundle of emails may be generated. The bundle of emails may comprise the first email thread, the one or more additional email threads and an association with the tag. Additional attributes related to an exemplary bundle of emails are described in at least the foregoing description of
A generated bundle of emails may be displayed (processing operation 210) in a mailbox of an email service. As an example, a mailbox may be an email inbox for a user account that is associated with an email service. However, generated bundles may be sent to/displayed in any type of mailbox associated with an email service. As an example, the bundle of emails may be displayed (processing operation 210) inline with other emails of an email inbox.
Processing of method 200 may proceed to decision operation 212, where it is determined whether new content (e.g. emails) is to be added to the bundle of emails by the user (e.g. bundle creator/bundle owner). If no new content is to added to a bundle by the user, flow branches NO and processing of method 200 remains idle until further action is to be taken with respect to a bundle (e.g. bundle to be updated/receives updated content). In cases where content is to be added to a bundle by a user, flow branches YES and proceeds to processing operation 214, where a bundle of emails may be re-generated. As an example, a user may provide input (e.g. third input) indicating to add a new email (or emails) to a bundle of emails triggering update to a bundle of emails. A re-generated bundle of emails may comprise: the first email thread, the one or more additional email threads, the new email(s), an association with the tag and an association with one or more additional tags generated based on an application of a machine learning model that analyzes metadata associated with emails of the re-generated bundle of emails.
Flow of method 200 may proceed to decision operation 216, where it is determined whether there is an update to the bundle of emails. Update to a bundle of emails may comprise additional content from message threads associated with bundled emails and changes to content provided by other users whom the bundle of emails is shared with, among other examples. In examples where an update occurs to a bundle of emails, flow branches YES and proceeds to processing operation 218. At processing operation 218, the bundle of emails is prioritized in a queue/message list of a user mailbox (of the email service). In examples where no update occurs to a bundle of emails, flow branches NO and proceeds to processing operation 220. At processing operation 220, the bundle of emails is de-prioritized in a queue/message list of a user mailbox (of the email service). Bundles of emails that do not receive updates can continue to be de-prioritized in a user mailbox. Anytime, an update is received, the bundle of emails can be immediately prioritized to the top of a user mailbox.
As stated above, a number of program modules and data files may be stored in the system memory 406. While executing on the processing unit 404, program modules 408 (e.g., Input/Output (I/O) manager 424, other utility 426 and application 428) may perform processes including, but not limited to, one or more of the stages of the operations described throughout this disclosure. Other program modules that may be used in accordance with examples of the present invention may include electronic mail and contacts applications, word processing applications, spreadsheet applications, database applications, slide presentation applications, drawing or computer-aided application programs, photo editing applications, authoring applications, etc.
Furthermore, examples of the invention may be practiced in an electrical circuit comprising discrete electronic elements, packaged or integrated electronic chips containing logic gates, a circuit utilizing a microprocessor, or on a single chip containing electronic elements or microprocessors. For example, examples of the invention may be practiced via a system-on-a-chip (SOC) where each or many of the components illustrated in
The computing device 402 may also have one or more input device(s) 412 such as a keyboard, a mouse, a pen, a sound input device, a device for voice input/recognition, a touch input device, etc. The output device(s) 414 such as a display, speakers, a printer, etc. may also be included. The aforementioned devices are examples and others may be used. The computing device 404 may include one or more communication connections 416 allowing communications with other computing devices 418. Examples of suitable communication connections 416 include, but are not limited to, RF transmitter, receiver, and/or transceiver circuitry; universal serial bus (USB), parallel, and/or serial ports.
The term computer readable media as used herein may include computer storage media. Computer storage media may include volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information, such as computer readable instructions, data structures, or program modules. The system memory 406, the removable storage device 409, and the non-removable storage device 410 are all computer storage media examples (i.e., memory storage.) Computer storage media may include RAM, ROM, electrically erasable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other article of manufacture which can be used to store information and which can be accessed by the computing device 402. Any such computer storage media may be part of the computing device 402. Computer storage media does not include a carrier wave or other propagated or modulated data signal.
Communication media may be embodied by computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism, and includes any information delivery media. The term “modulated data signal” may describe a signal that has one or more characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media may include wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, radio frequency (RF), infrared, and other wireless media.
One or more application programs 566 may be loaded into the memory 562 and run on or in association with the operating system 564. Examples of the application programs include phone dialer programs, e-mail programs, personal information management (PIM) programs, word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, Internet browser programs, messaging programs, and so forth. The system 502 also includes a non-volatile storage area 568 within the memory 562. The non-volatile storage area 568 may be used to store persistent information that should not be lost if the system 502 is powered down. The application programs 566 may use and store information in the non-volatile storage area 568, such as e-mail or other messages used by an e-mail application, and the like. A synchronization application (not shown) also resides on the system 502 and is programmed to interact with a corresponding synchronization application resident on a host computer to keep the information stored in the non-volatile storage area 568 synchronized with corresponding information stored at the host computer. As should be appreciated, other applications may be loaded into the memory 562 and run on the mobile computing device (e.g. system 502) described herein.
The system 502 has a power supply 570, which may be implemented as one or more batteries. The power supply 570 might further include an external power source, such as an AC adapter or a powered docking cradle that supplements or recharges the batteries.
The system 502 may include peripheral device port 530 that performs the function of facilitating connectivity between system 502 and one or more peripheral devices. Transmissions to and from the peripheral device port 530 are conducted under control of the operating system (OS) 564. In other words, communications received by the peripheral device port 530 may be disseminated to the application programs 566 via the operating system 564, and vice versa.
The system 502 may also include a radio interface layer 572 that performs the function of transmitting and receiving radio frequency communications. The radio interface layer 572 facilitates wireless connectivity between the system 502 and the “outside world,” via a communications carrier or service provider. Transmissions to and from the radio interface layer 572 are conducted under control of the operating system 564. In other words, communications received by the radio interface layer 572 may be disseminated to the application programs 566 via the operating system 564, and vice versa.
The visual indicator 520 may be used to provide visual notifications, and/or an audio interface 574 may be used for producing audible notifications via the audio transducer 525 (as described in the description of mobile computing device 500). In the illustrated example, the visual indicator 520 is a light emitting diode (LED) and the audio transducer 525 is a speaker. These devices may be directly coupled to the power supply 570 so that when activated, they remain on for a duration dictated by the notification mechanism even though the processor 560 and other components might shut down for conserving battery power. The LED may be programmed to remain on indefinitely until the user takes action to indicate the powered-on status of the device. The audio interface 574 is used to provide audible signals to and receive audible signals from the user. For example, in addition to being coupled to the audio transducer 525 (shown in
A mobile computing device 500 implementing the system 502 may have additional features or functionality. For example, the mobile computing device 500 may also include additional data storage devices (removable and/or non-removable) such as, magnetic disks, optical disks, or tape. Such additional storage is illustrated in
Data/information generated or captured by the mobile computing device 500 and stored via the system 502 may be stored locally on the mobile computing device 500, as described above, or the data may be stored on any number of storage media that may be accessed by the device via the radio 572 or via a wired connection between the mobile computing device 500 and a separate computing device associated with the mobile computing device 500, for example, a server computer in a distributed computing network, such as the Internet. As should be appreciated such data/information may be accessed via the mobile computing device 500 via the radio 572 or via a distributed computing network. Similarly, such data/information may be readily transferred between computing devices for storage and use according to well-known data/information transfer and storage means, including electronic mail and collaborative data/information sharing systems.
Reference has been made throughout this specification to “one example” or “an example,” meaning that a particular described feature, structure, or characteristic is included in at least one example. Thus, usage of such phrases may refer to more than just one example. Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more examples.
One skilled in the relevant art may recognize, however, that the examples may be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, resources, materials, etc. In other instances, well known structures, resources, or operations have not been shown or described in detail merely to observe obscuring aspects of the examples.
While sample examples and applications have been illustrated and described, it is to be understood that the examples are not limited to the precise configuration and resources described above. Various modifications, changes, and variations apparent to those skilled in the art may be made in the arrangement, operation, and details of the methods and systems disclosed herein without departing from the scope of the claimed examples.