US 12,339,808 B2
Automatically assigning application shortcuts to folders with user- defined names
Aditya Rautray, Bangalore (IN); Deviprasad Punja, Bangalore (IN); and Madhusudhan Srinivasan, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/226,571.
Application 18/226,571 is a continuation of application No. 17/255,003, granted, now 11,755,533, previously published as PCT/US2019/022250, filed on Mar. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0367743 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/166 (2019.01) [G06F 16/148 (2019.01); G06F 16/156 (2019.01); G06F 16/168 (2019.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically organizing application shortcuts into folders, the method comprising:
identifying first metadata of a first folder installed on a computing device;
identifying second metadata of a second folder installed on the computing device;
identifying an application for installation on the computing device by determining that at least one of downloading of the application to the computing device has been initiated or that installation of the application on the computing device has been initiated;
after identifying the application for installation on the computing device, automatically perform, by control circuitry:
identifying metadata of the application; and
determining whether the metadata of the application matches the first metadata of the first folder or the second metadata of the second folder; and
based at least in part on determining that the metadata of the application matches the first metadata of the first folder, adding an icon for the application to the first folder, wherein the icon for the application is added to the first folder after the installation of the application on the computing device is complete.