System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files

• US 20060143253A1
• 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:
  US11/358,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20060143253A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1744 using compression, e.g. sparse files
• 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 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures
• 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. An archive modification system including:

a user interface provided by a file management application; and

a .ZIP archive management application, wherein said .ZIP archive management application operates within said file management application to allow a user to modify an archive using said user interface.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said user interface is a graphical user interface.

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

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management 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 file management application operates on a telephonic device.

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management 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 file management application is Windows Explorer.

22. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management application is Macintosh Finder.

23. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management application operates on a UNIX platform.

24. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management application operates on a LINUX platform.

25. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management application operates on an operating system of a portable device.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein said file management application operates on a Windows Pocket PC platform.

27. The system of claim 25 wherein said file management application operates on a Windows Smartphone platform.

28. The system of claim 25 wherein said file management application operates on a Palm platform.

29. The system of claim 25 wherein said file management operates on an iPOD platform.

30. The system of claim 1 wherein said file management application operates using a language interpreter.

31. The system of claim 30 wherein said language interpreter processes byte code

32. The system of claim 30 wherein said language interpreter processes a scripted programming language.

33. The system of claim 30 wherein said language interpreter is JAVA.

34. The system of claim 30 wherein said language interpreter is .NET.

35. The system of claim 30 wherein said language interpreter is software based.

36. The system of claim 30 wherein said language interpreter is hardware based.

37. The system of claim 1 wherein modifying said archive includes modifying a file in said archive.

38. An archive viewing system including:

a user interface provided by a file management application; and

a .ZIP archive management application, wherein said .ZIP archive management application operates within said file management application to allow a user to view contents of an archive using said user interface.

39. The system of claim 38 wherein said file management application operates on a portable device.

40. The system of claim 38 wherein said file management application operates on a telephonic device.

41. The system of claim 38 wherein said file management application operates on a gaming device.

42. The system of claim 38 wherein said file management application operates on an electronic game device.

43. The system of claim 38 wherein said file management application operates on a television system.

44. The system of claim 38 wherein said file management application operates on an image capture device.

45. An archive accessing system including:

a user interface provided by a file management application; and

a .ZIP archive management application, wherein said .ZIP archive management application operates within said file management application to allow a user to access a file in an archive using said user interface.

46. An archive modification method including:

providing a user interface using a file management application;

providing a .ZIP archive management application; and

operating said .ZIP archive management application within said file management application to allow a user to modify an archive using said user interface.

47. An archive viewing method including:

providing a user interface using a file management application;

providing a .ZIP archive management application; and

operating said .ZIP archive management application within said file management application to allow a user to view contents of an archive using said user interface.

48. An archive accessing method including:

providing a user interface using a file management application;

providing a .ZIP archive management application; and

operating said .ZIP archive management application within said file management application to allow a user to access a file in an archive using said user interface.