ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,621, issued on Nov. 25.
"File browser user interface" was invented by Clint Sharp (Oakland, Calif.), Jesse Miller (Berkeley, Calif.), Jason Szeto (Redwood City, Calif.) and Nima Haddadkaveh (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search support system allows a customer to browse data contained in files stored on an external storage system. The search support system allows a customer to specify data processing tasks to be performed on raw data retrieved from a file stored on the external storage system. The customer specifies each data processing task and the search support system performs each task as it is selected by the cu...