Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
707829000 | Hierarchical structure | 37 |
20100211621 | WEB-BASED ORGANIZATION OF ONLINE ADVERTISING CONTENT - A system, method, and computer program product are provided that enable organization of online advertising content, such as online ads, creatives, and templates, using a Web-based hierarchical folder structure. The hierarchical folder structure includes a plurality of folders among which the online ad content may be organized. The hierarchical folder structure is accessible to one or more advertisers, publishers, or representatives thereof via the World Wide Web. | 08-19-2010 |
20100325181 | CATALOG THAT STORES FILE SYSTEM METADATA IN AN OPTIMIZED MANNER - A system stores file system metadata in a manner that scales to a large number of entries per “capture,” where a capture is metadata of all of the files and their associated directories contained in a logical file system at a given time. The file system metadata is stored, in tangible computer readable media, in data structures that are optimized to the unique characteristics of file system metadata and, particularly, how it is desired to access and process file system metadata. Thus, the technical effect is that processing storing and processing of the file system metadata is highly optimized, such that time, storage and processing power to process the file system metadata is drastically reduced. | 12-23-2010 |
20110035424 | USER DATA PROFILE NAMESPACE - A method and data structure for separating application data from user data in a namespace. The data structure provides an intuitive profile layout for developers or users while supporting legacy applications. The namespace utilizes a hierarchical structure allowing access by developers or users over a network to information contained in identified public folders and/or a user's profile. | 02-10-2011 |
20110060778 | PROCESSING SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES WITHIN A FILE - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for processing special attributes within a file are provided. The method includes accessing the file with a hierarchical tree structure of file elements, and retrieving special attributes associated with the file elements. The special attributes are selectively assigned to the file elements. The method also includes interpreting the special attributes using hierarchical inheritance to pass the special attributes from subordinate file elements to higher-level file elements. The method further includes creating a file-level representation of the interpreted special attributes. | 03-10-2011 |
20110078221 | INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL DEVICE BASED ON A COLLECTION OF FOLDED SHEETS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - The information retrieval devices of the present invention are composed of two dual hierarchical structures, the first structure containing the premises and the second the consequences/prescriptions arising from the premises. According to a variant embodiment, the information is represented by a collection of nested folded sheets not bound to one another. | 03-31-2011 |
20110125818 | NOVEL MEDIA FILE FOR MULTI-PLATFORM NON-LINEAR VIDEO EDITING SYSTEMS - A system and method for ingesting (capturing) digital video media files for storage on a Linux® platform-based computing environment that creates Quicktime Reference-compatible Files in the Linux® environment. Quicktime Reference-compatible Files are created such that they are labeled as not created by Avid's codec, but rather, by a native Quicktime codec. Then, via the system and method of the invention, at the time the Quicktime Reference-compatible Files are created in the Linux® environment, the system and method automatically captures the Avid file and automatically creates hard-links to those files so that the QuickTime Reference-compatible Files refer to the hard links rather than to the original Avid files. That is, rather than using the direct reference to the media files, a hard link is created to provide a second reference to them. In this manner, via said hard links (e.g., object reference), a user is permitted indirect access to all digital audio and video data that is stored in the directory on the storage device, while not requiring access to the original Avid media files. Advantageously, there is no need to convert Avid-formatted files to the Quicktime format. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131259 | FILE LOCATION NAMING HIERARCHY - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for a file location naming hierarchy are disclosed. | 06-02-2011 |
20110179097 | Creating virtual targets in directory structures - A method includes detecting a first user operation corresponding to a first item in a directory structure. The directory structure represents a hierarchical arrangement of a plurality of items, including the first item, in a memory. The first user operation indicates a start of an item action with the first item. The method also includes, in response to detecting a second user operation corresponding to a second item in the directory structure, creating a virtual target in the second item in the directory structure. The virtual target is a possible location for completion of the item action with the first item. The method further includes, in response to a third user operation indicating completion of the item action with the first item in the virtual target, completing the item action with the first item in the virtual target. | 07-21-2011 |
20120011179 | FAT DIRECTORY STRUCTURE FOR USE IN TRANSACTION SAFE FILE SYSTEM - Directories in a file system are defined with a dummy cluster in a file allocation table as the initial entry. Subsequent clusters in a directory's definition may define any data for the directory that can be changed in a transaction-safe mode. A directory may be modified in a transaction-safe mode by modifying any of the subsequent clusters while tracking changes in a second file allocation table. When the changes have been made to the directory, a pointer to the second file allocation table may be switched to indicate that the second file allocation table is now last known good. The first file allocation table may then be synchronized with the second. | 01-12-2012 |
20120030264 | Computer System For Automatic Organization, Indexing and Viewing Multiple Objects From Multiple Sources - A computer data processing system including a central processing unit configured with a novel integrated computer control software system for the management of data objects including dynamic and automatic organization, linking, finding, cross-referencing, viewing and retrieval of multiple objects regardless of nature or source. The inventive system provides underlying component architecture having an object-oriented database structure and a metadata database structure which is unique in storing only one instance of each object while linking the object to multiple collections and domains by unique metadata links for the grouping into and retrieval from any of the collections. The system employs configurable, extensible attribute/properties of data objects in metadata format, and a truly user-friendly configurable interface that facilitates faster, more unified, comprehensive, useful and meaningful information management. Additional features include a sticky path object hierarchy viewing system, key phrase linking, viewing by reference, and drag-and-drop relationship link creation. | 02-02-2012 |
20120066278 | DISTRIBUTED FILE HIERARCHY MANAGEMENT IN A CLUSTERED REDIRECT-ON-WRITE FILE SYSTEM - Management of a file hierarchy for a clustered file system can be distributed across nodes of the cluster. A cluster file hierarchy is accessed to determine location of a file in response to a request to write to a file. A first node maintains the cluster file hierarchy. It is determined that management of a fileset object, which represents a fileset that includes the file, has been delegated to a second node based, at least in part, on said accessing the cluster file hierarchy. A node file hierarchy maintained by the second node is accessed responsive to determining the delegation. The cluster file hierarchy represents filesets of the clustered file system and the node hierarchy represents a subset of one or more of the filesets. Location of the file is determined based, at least in part, on said accessing the node file hierarchy. | 03-15-2012 |
20120110046 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - In order to make more efficient virtual folder creation work which is required at the time of virtually classifying files, the present invention provides a system having: a function of extracting keywords and frequencies thereof included in metadata; and a function of creating a virtual folder on the basis of the extracted keywords and the extracted frequencies thereof. At the time of extracting the keywords, character strings which can be considered as the keywords are comprehensively extracted. In addition, at the time of creating the virtual folder, the virtual folder is provided with a hierarchical structure including at least two hierarchical levels of a parent folder and a child folder. At the time of creating the child folder, in the case where child folder candidates having equivalent frequencies exist, a candidate having a longer character string is adopted. | 05-03-2012 |
20120246207 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACES FOR STORING, SEARCHING, NAVIGATING, AND RETRIEVING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - Computer system navigation tools provide “links” to various different files, lists, folders, and/or other storage elements and allow users to organize files, e.g., by hierarchical properties, lists, auto lists, folders, and the like. Such systems and methods allow users to assign properties to a file (optionally in a hierarchical manner), to change assigned properties, to search, view, and retrieve information based on the assigned properties, and the like. | 09-27-2012 |
20130117340 | MANAGING FILE SYSTEMS - A path request is generated by a secondary platform application, such as a word processor, and is received by invention. The path request may contain the location of a library required for the application to function, or a document saved previously by a user. The path request comprises a complete path for the requested file. The complete path is formatted for a file system and file structure for expected by the application. | 05-09-2013 |
20130218935 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a folder creation unit and a content registration unit. The folder creation unit creates a folder at a predetermined hierarchical level in a predetermined hierarchy of folders. The content registration unit stores content in the folder and associates the content with different content, so that the content is registered for the folder. The folder is created by the folder creation unit. The different content is stored in the same folder as the content. | 08-22-2013 |
20130275480 | EXPANDING A HIERARCHICAL DISPERSED STORAGE INDEX - A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module determining to expand a hierarchical ordered index structure and retrieving a root index node. The method continues with the DS processing module identifying immediate children index nodes, dividing the immediate children index nodes into sets of children index nodes, creating, for each of the sets of children index nodes, a sub-root index node to produce a set of sub-root index nodes, creating a new root index node to include entries for each of the sub-root index nodes of the set of sub-root index nodes, and temporarily storing the new root index node and the set of sub-root index nodes in a dispersed storage network (DSN). When the root index node has not changed, the method continues with the DS processing module updating the hierarchical ordered index structure with the new root index node and the set of sub-root index nodes. | 10-17-2013 |
20140040333 | Display, View and operate Multi-Layers Item list in Web-Browser With Supporting of Concurrent Multi-Users - Support of end-user to view and operate computing resources through logically organized and graphically represented multi-layered item list (“hierarchical list”) has been fully realized on native window based computer user work environment with modern operating system such as Windows Explore of Microsoft. The present invention has implemented such a hierarchical list to represent structured resources, such as for folder structure, which to be displayable and operable via a browser on an end-user device. The implementation of the hierarchical list is accomplished by creating the hierarchical list in memory to mirror the actual folder structure, where the mirrored hierarchical list is sent to the end-user device, where the end-user device executes the browser to display the hierarchical list to allow the user via the displayed hierarchical list to request access, manage, and share the actual folder structure. | 02-06-2014 |
20140095560 | GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING PROGRAMMING ATTRIBUTES - A computing system for representing information, the computing system including at least one processor configured to process information. The processing includes defining a data structure representing a hierarchy of at least one programming attribute for developing an application. The data structure is stored in a file to allow the data structure to be used by other data structures stored in other files. The processing also includes producing a visual diagram including a graphical representation of the data structure and a graphical representation of the file storing the data structure. The visual diagram also includes a graphical representation of a relationship between the data structure and another data structure and a graphical representation of a relationship between the file storing the data structure and another file storing the other data structure. The computing system also including an output device for presenting the visual diagram that includes the graphical representations of the data structure and file and the graphical representations of the relationship of the data structures and the relationship of the files. | 04-03-2014 |
20140108475 | MIGRATION-DESTINATION FILE SERVER AND FILE SYSTEM MIGRATION METHOD - A migration-destination file server is coupled to a migration-source file server that provides a migration-source file system, and provides a migration-destination file system. The migration-destination file server comprises a storage device and a controller. When migrating a first hard-linked file, which is included in multiple hard-linked files referencing the same file management information in the migration-source file system, to the migration-destination file system, the controller stores data related to the first hard-linked file in the storage device, creates the first hard-linked file in the migration-destination file system, and creates a dummy hard-linked file for referencing the same file management information as the first hard-linked file in the migration-destination file server, and when migrating a second hard-linked file included in the multiple hard-linked files, the controller renames the dummy hard-linked file as a pathname of the second hard-linked file in the migration-destination file system. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115021 | Method and Terminal for Accessing a File of a Terminal - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a terminal for accessing a file of a terminal, to implement uniform management of a built-in SD card and an external SD card in a smart terminal, thereby effectively improving utilization of storage space of the smart terminal. The method includes: receiving a request for accessing a file, where the access request includes a first file path that is an access path of the file; converting the first file path into a second file path according to a path mapping list of the user space file system when the first file path points to the user space file system, where the second file path is an actual storage path of the file in the at least two storage areas; and accessing the file according to the second file path. | 04-24-2014 |
20140164454 | MULTI-STRUCTURAL, MULTI-LEVEL INFORMATION FORMALIZATION AND STRUCTURING METHOD, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - Systems and methods for structuring information include determining information quantity (IQ) and information value (IV) in an original digital information file (ODIF). An initial manipulation process applied to the ODIF forms a first resulting DIF (FRDIF), and a subsequent manipulation process applied to the FRDIF forms a second resulting DIF, wherein each manipulation process removes at least one element of the processed DIF and/or represents an element combination with a representative element and a first indicia of an interrelationship between the representative element and one or more elements in the combination, to reduce the IQ of the processed DIF, while retaining the IV thereof within a threshold. Manipulation processes are successively applied to the previously resulting DIF until successive applications do not achieve a threshold reduction in IQ. The last resulting DIF has a primary structure with a reduced IQ and an IV within the threshold of the original IV. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172931 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM FOR CREATING FOLDER SHORTCUTS - To provide a shortcut creating apparatus which creates folder shortcuts for a plurality of folders in a single flow without move to a target folder, and stores the created folder shortcuts in a selected folder. The shortcut creating apparatus according to the present invention includes: (1) a one-way shortcut creating unit configured to create a folder shortcut of a reference folder under a related folder, (2) a one-way shortcut creating unit configured to create a folder shortcut of the related folder under the reference folder, (3) a two-way shortcut creating unit configured to create a folder shortcut of the reference folder under the related folder, and create a folder shortcut of the related folder under the reference folder, and (4) a multiple-shortcut creating unit configured to create respective folder shortcuts of the reference folder and the related folders under folders except under the currently selected folder. | 06-19-2014 |
20140188956 | PERSONALIZED REAL-TIME RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Content is proactively presented to a user, to enable the user to more efficiently access such content. A user context is correlated to content that is likely to be subsequently accessed. One such a correlation is specific to a given user, while another such correlation is general to a collection, or class, of users. Correlations between a current user context and content subsequently accessed are based on historical data and are defined in terms of mathematical functions or semantic relationships. Such correlations are then utilized to identify content that is likely to be subsequently accessed, and such content is proactively presented to a user. A user interface provides a defined area within which proactive presentations of content are made, including while the user is utilizing other application programs. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188957 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention makes it possible to execute file management efficiently even if a situation occurs that real data cannot be acquired because metadata in a lower level system cannot be accessed. In a hierarchical storage system, a higher level system acquires available metadata range information indicative of available and unavailable ranges of metadata, from the lower level system, and identifies inaccessible files that are in a state that reading of substantial data in accordance with a stub file is impossible on the lower level, on the basis of the available metadata range information. The higher level system manages this inaccessible file information to transmit the information to a client computer or use the information to control a file access request from the client computer (see FIG. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188958 | DATA DRIVEN HIERARCHICAL PAGES - A method of managing data includes generating a model file containing descriptions of the data, wherein the descriptions of the data in the model file are formatted as a collection of dictionaries, wherein the descriptions of the data are divided into multiple groups that are associated with multiple hierarchical pages, and wherein the multiple groups associated with the multiple hierarchical pages are listed in the model file in a flat structure, and generating a controller file that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to interpret the model file and present the data in the multiple hierarchical pages to a user, wherein the controller file refers to one of the multiple groups in the model file, wherein the controller file is re-used to interpret the multiple groups in the descriptions of the data and present the data in the multiple hierarchical pages. | 07-03-2014 |
20140258350 | System and Method for Cloud-Based Read-Only Folder Synchronization - A system and method are provided for synchronizing read-only folders from a cloud-based server. Users can set read-only permissions when sharing folders with other users. The read-only permissions are enforced by client devices of the users downloading content of the folders from the server. To prevent local changes made by a user having read-only access to a folder from being overwritten, the user's client identifies modified folders as local content. After identifying a modified folder as local content, the client may retrieve the original folder from the cloud-based server. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258351 | REVISION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a file revision-control system, method and apparatus configured for storing and managing a revision history log, and for enabling to track and manage, compare and retrieve revisions including, current-revisions stored on a designated reference area, past-revisions stored in a predefined storage area and also past-revisions which were previously on a reference area. According to certain embodiments of the invention, each revision of a file is represented by a revision entry in a revision history log, which can be stored and managed in a designated data-repository. A revision entry stores data corresponding to at least one revision, while the revisions themselves may be stored on a designated data-repository. A progression path refers to one or more revision entries which represent the progression of a file over time. In case that a revision is branched into more than one revisions, each such revision will constitute a different progression path. | 09-11-2014 |
20150067007 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an electronic device has an interface, storage and a controller. The interface is configured to connect with an external storage device. The storage is configured to store data. The controller is configured to determine whether information for identifying a folder name is stored in the external storage device when the external storage device is connected to the interface, and to recognize the external storage device as a folder having the folder name corresponding to the information when the information is stored in the external storage device. | 03-05-2015 |
20150088944 | GENERATING METHOD, GENERATING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a generating program that causes a computer to execute a process including: selecting a control mode from a first control mode and a second control mode in accordance with whether a document element that includes a predetermined number or more of child elements is present in a document file, the first control mode and the second control mode determining storing locations of data in the document file from a plurality of blocks, the first control mode determining the storing locations of data in the document file for each document element in a hierarchy of the child elements, and the second control mode determining the storing locations of data in the document file for each document element in the hierarchy of the document element that includes the child elements or in the hierarchy higher than the hierarchy of the document element. | 03-26-2015 |
20150106412 | Local Storage Linked to Networked Storage System - Disclosed are various embodiments for storage of files. A removable memory device is configured to couple to a computing device, and a storage management application is stored in the removable memory device, the storage management application being executable by a processor circuit. The storage management application is configured to send a plurality of files for storage in a networked storage system, the networked storage system being remote to the computing device. The storage management system caches a subset of the files on the removable memory device and maintains a local file directory in the removable memory device. The local file directory lists the files stored in the networked storage system in association with an account linked to the removable memory device. | 04-16-2015 |
20150324380 | File System Enabling Fast Purges and File Access - Some embodiments provide a file system for purging content based on a single traversal of the file system that identifies the directory containing the content without performing a secondary traversal within the directory to target the operation to only the file that are associated with content such that other files contained in the directory are unaffected. The file system supplements traditional directory structures with file-level directories. Each file-level directory is created to contain a root file associated with particular content, different variants of the particular content, and supporting files. Consequently, the file system can complete an operation targeting particular content by performing that operation on the file-level directory containing the particular content, thereby eliminating the need to conduct a file-by-file traversal of the containing directory as a prerequisite to identifying the files associated with the particular content and performing the operation on the files individually. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324381 | MULTI-LEVEL NAMESPACE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF FOR HYBRID CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEMS - A multi-level namespace management system. The system comprises a processing unit; and a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, configure the namespace management system to: maintain a plurality of multi-level namespaces for data stored by a storage system, wherein each of the plurality of multi-level namespaces designates at least one of: at least one personal folder of a user, at least one shared-folder being shared with the user by other users, and at least one project namespace designating at least one project folder that is accessible by the user; and maintain for each of the plurality of multi-level namespaces, an escalation policy enabling a potential escalation of the at least one personal folder to the at least one project namespace, thereby allowing the at least one personal folder to be viewed and accessed throughout a hierarchy of the at least one project namespace. | 11-12-2015 |
20150347455 | REPRESENTING A VENUE - Techniques for storing information representing a venue are described. A system can represent a venue as a set of one or more nested data objects. A top layer of the nested data objects can include a venue data object that stores coarse information of the venue, including an identifier, a name, and a geometry of the venue. A second layer of data objects that are nested in the venue data object can include one or more building data objects that have finer granularity than the venue data object. Each building data object can store information on a building located at the venue, including name of the building, address of the building, and a geometry of the building. Additional layers of data objects representing further details of each building. | 12-03-2015 |
20160004713 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling an information processing apparatus includes specifying a folder for storing a file among a plurality of folders, displaying character string candidates for setting a file name of a file based on a folder path of the specified folder, selecting a character string from a plurality of displayed character strings, and setting the selected character string as the file name of the file. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004722 | DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT STORE TRANSMITTED DATA IN FOLDERS IN HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE - A data communication method of storing data transmitted from a data transmission apparatus in a folder provided in an information processing apparatus and capable of checking content of backup data without opening the data by storing data. Folders are generated in each level of a hierarchical structure based on set hierarchical structure of the folders. Types of information related to transmission of the data are set as types of names of the folders in each level of the hierarchical structure. A specific value of the information related to the transmission of the data corresponding to the set types is provided to the generated folders as the names of the generated folders. | 01-07-2016 |
20160110379 | METHOD FOR FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND ASSOCIATED DATA STRUCTURE - Data structure that is associated with an hierarchical file system of a computational system. The hierarchical file system includes a set of files arranged in a directory structure including a set of directories. The data structure includes a data store with a set of reference data objects (topics) and a set of coupling data elements. The set of coupling data elements includes at least: one coupling data element for coupling a first item selected from either the set of reference data objects or the set of files or the set of directories with a second item from either the set of reference data objects or the set of files or the set of directories. | 04-21-2016 |
20160140142 | AUTOMATIC RESOURCE OWNERSHIP ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for automatic folder ownership assignment, including ascertaining which first folders, among a first multiplicity of folders, have at least one of modify and write permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the first folders to a list of candidates for ownership assignment, defining a second multiplicity of folders which is a subset of the first multiplicity of folders and not including the first folders and descendents and ancestors thereof, ascertaining which second folders among the second multiplicity of folders, have permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the second folders to the candidates, defining a third multiplicity of folders, which is a subset of the second multiplicity of folders and not including the second folders and descendents and ancestors thereof, ascertaining which third folders among the third multiplicity of folders are topmost folders, adding the third folders to the candidates, and recommending possible assignment of ownership of the candidates. | 05-19-2016 |