Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files

• US 20070118819A1
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Published: 05/24/2007
• 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:
  US11/586,834
• Publication Number:
  US 20070118819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/847
• 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 system for providing a user-accessible shortcut to a file in a file archive, said system including:

a file archive including a data file;

a graphical user interface provided by a browser; and

a file archive management application, wherein said file archive management application allows a user to establish a user-accessible shortcut to said data file using said graphical user interface.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said file archive is a .zip archive and said file archive management application is a .zip archive management application.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said browser is Microsoft Windows Explorer.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said file archive is compressed.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein said file archive is decompressed when said user-accessible shortcut is selected.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein said data file is decompressed when said user-accessible shortcut is selected.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said file archive is encrypted.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein said file archive is decrypted when said user-accessible shortcut is selected.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein said data file is decrypted when said user-accessible shortcut is selected.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein said file archive management application allows a user to establish a user-accessible shortcuts.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein at least one of said user-accessible shortcuts is a shortcut to said data file using said graphical user interface.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein at least one of said user-accessible shortcuts is a shortcut to said file archive using said graphical user interface.

13. A method for providing a user-accessible shortcut to a file in a .zip archive, said method including:

providing a .zip archive including a data file;

providing a graphical user interface using Microsoft Windows Explorer; and

providing a .zip archive management application, wherein said .zip archive management application allows a user to establish a user-accessible shortcut to said data file using said graphical user interface.

14. A method for accessing a file in a .zip archive, said method including:

providing a .zip archive including a data file;

providing a graphical user interface using Microsoft Windows Explorer; and

accessing said data file through said graphical user interface using a user-accessible shortcut.

15. A method for supplementing Microsoft Windows Explorer, said method including:

providing Microsoft Windows Explorer;

providing a .zip archive management application;

installing said .zip archive management application into Microsoft Windows Explorer to form a supplemented version of Microsoft Windows Explorer;

providing a .zip archive including a data file; and

providing a user-accessible shortcut to said data file using said supplemented version of Microsoft Windows Explorer.