Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files

• US 20070043781A1
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PKWARE, Inc. (PKW Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PKWARE, Inc. (PKW Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Basin, Yuri, Peterson, James, Peterson, Karen, Beirne, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/588,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20070043781A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• 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 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: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop operations. An important feature of the program is the archive manager which may be used to open a zip file, create a new zip file, extract zip files, modify zip files, etc. The program is integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer using the shell name space extension application program interface developed by Microsoft.

Claims

1. A method for modifying a .zip archive, said method including:

providing a graphical user interface using Microsoft Windows Explorer;

providing a .zip management application, wherein said .zip management application allows a user to modify a .zip archive using said graphical user interface;

providing a .zip archive;

using said graphical user interface to identify a modification to said .zip archive desired by a user;

storing an indication of said modification to said .zip archive; and

retrieving said indication of said modification when a command is received by said .zip management application.

2. The method of claim 1 further including:

performing said modification of said .zip archive when a command is received by said .zip management application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said command is a save command.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein said command is a save command.

5. A system for modifying a .zip archive, said system including:

a graphical user interface provided by Microsoft Windows Explorer; and

a .zip archive management application, wherein said .zip archive management application allows a user to modify a .zip archive using said graphical user interface,

wherein said .zip archive management application receives an indication of a modification desired by a user through said graphical user interface,

wherein said .zip archive management application includes data storage, wherein said data storage stores said indication of said modification to said .zip archive.

6. The system of claim 6 wherein said .zip archive management application retrieves said indication from said data storage when a command is received by said .zip archive management application.