System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files

• US 20060143249A1
• Filed: 02/21/2006
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PKWARE, Inc. (PKW Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PKWARE, Inc. (PKW Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Peterson, James C., Basin, Yuri, Peterson, Karen L., Beime, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US11/358,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20060143249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/30 Compression speech analysis-synthesis for redundancy reduction G10L19/00; for image communication H04N; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/30 Compression, e.g. Merkle-Damgard construction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3231 Biological data, e.g. fingerprint, voice or retina network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using biometrical features in a packet data network H04L63/0861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823

Abstract

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application'"'"'s interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In an embodiment of the present invention, a file archiving system may include a user interface component, a file management component and a compression/extraction engine component. The user interface component may include an enhanced user interface of a host application that provides an interface for a user. The file management component may include a central directory that provides a representation of the contents of an archive. The compression/extraction engine component may include a file size module and/or a security module. The file size module may be used to compress and/or decompress a file in an archive. The security module may be used to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and/or authenticate a file in an archive.

Claims

1. A system for archive management, said system including:

a software application; and

an archive management application providing an archive management function within said software application, wherein said archive management application is usable using said software application without leaving said software application.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said archive management application is usable using a user interface of said software application.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on a personal computer.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on a portable device.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein said portable device is a wireless device.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein said portable device is a portable digital assistant.

7. The system of claim 4 wherein said portable device is a portable music playing device.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein said portable music playing device allows replay of pre-recorded music.

9. The system of claim 4 wherein said portable device is a portable storage device.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein said portable storage device operates using a Universal Serial Bus.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on a telephonic device.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein said software application operates on a cellular phone.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on a gaming device.

14. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on an electronic game device.

15. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on a television system.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein said software application operates on a satellite television system.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein said software application operates on a cable television system.

18. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application operates on an image capture device.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein said image capture device is a camera.

20. The system of claim 18 wherein said image capture device is a video recorder.

21. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application is Microsoft Word

22. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application is Microsoft Access.

23. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application is Microsoft PowerPoint.

24. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application is Microsoft Excel.

25. The system of claim 1 wherein said software application is Microsoft Open Office.

26. A system for archive management, said system including:

a software application; and

an archive management application, wherein said archive management application provides at least one archive management operation to said software application without leaving said software application.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein said software application operates on a portable device.

28. The system of claim 26 wherein said software application operates on a telephonic device.

29. The system of claim 26 wherein said software application operates on a gaming device.

30. The system of claim 26 wherein said software application operates on an electronic game device.

31. The system of claim 26 wherein said software application operates on a television system.

32. The system of claim 26 wherein said software application operates on an image capture device.

33. A system for extending a set of user-accessible operations provided by a software application, said system including:

a software application, said software application associated with a set of user-accessible operations; and

an archive management application, wherein said archive management application adds at least one archive management operation to said set of user-accessible operations provided by said software application.

34. A system for providing a software application with an archive management operation, said system including:

a software application; and

an archive management application providing an archive management operation,

wherein said archive management operation is supplied by said archive management application to said software application.

35. A system for archive management, said system including:

a software application; and

an archive management application operating within said software application, wherein said archive management application is usable using said software application without leaving said software application.

36. A system for providing a software application with an archive management operation, said system including:

a software application; and

an archive management application providing an archive management operation,

wherein said archive management operation is supplied by said archive management application operating within said software application.