| 摘要 |
The present invention discloses a computer software system for organizing hierarchical information collections that are like virtual file cabinets. These are similar to physical file cabinets, but have more flexibility in arranging and accessing information. Just like in a physical file cabinet, the information items can be categorized and placed sequentially in an order. But, unlike in the physical cabinet where an item can be categorized and placed with reference to only one attribute of the item, the information items stored in virtual file cabinets can be categorized using several attributes like time, location, people and subjects involved. With a single-click of the computer mouse all the information items can be seen sequentially in the appropriate order of any of the attribute types used for categorization, i.e. the virtual file cabinet serves as several file cabinets each one holding the items according to the order of each of the attributes. It is as if the same information item is present in several file cabinets that use different categorization systems. Each of the information items stored in the virtual file cabinet can comprise of graphical images, textual information and tabular information with references to multi-media files. All the information can be kept in one page or several pages. Selecting an item in the virtual cabinet displays the attributes of the item and also the contents of that item. All the contents of the virtual file cabinets can be viewed one-by-one or in a slide show manner sequenced using any of the specified attributes. The virtual file cabinet can be made available to remote users using Internet without the need of any commercial third parties and the owner of the virtual file cabinet can grant permissions as to who can see what items and if the remote users are allowed to add any items to the virtual file cabinet. The activities of the remote users are logged and can be monitored in real time if desired.
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