FILE CONTROL SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM

• US 20090248761A1
• Filed: 03/25/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Personal Computers, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Personal Computers, Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIRAKAWA, TAKAHISA
• Application Number:
  US12/410,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20090248761A1
• 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 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06

Abstract

A file control system according to the present invention includes a host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network, the host device including: a comparator that compares first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device with second file information stored in a second storage unit of the host device, and extracts differential information; and a transmitter that transmits the differential information to the information processing device, and the information processing device including: a receiver that receives the differential information; and a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the second storage unit and not stored in the first storage unit based on the received differential information.

Claims

1. A file control system comprising a host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network,

the host device comprising:

a comparator that compares first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device with second file information stored in a second storage unit of the host device, and extracts differential information; and

a transmitter that transmits the differential information to the information processing device, and

the information processing device comprising;

a receiver that receives the differential information; and

a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the second storage unit and not stored in the first storage unit based on the received differential information.

2. The file control system according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device further comprises a display unit that displays file information in the index information in association with the first storage unit.

3. The file control system according to claim 2, wherein the information processing device further comprises a display converter that converts a display format of the file information which is displayed in association with the first storage unit and is based on the index information into a first display format that is the same as a display format of the first file information when the information processing device is logged on to the host device, and that converts the display format of the file information to a second display format that differs from the first display format when the information processing device is logged off from the host device.

4. The file control system according to claim 3, wherein a display color of a file or attribute of a file in the first display format is the same as that in a display format of the first file information, and a display color of a file or attribute of a file in the second display format differs from that in the display format of first file information.

5. An information processing device that constitutes a file control system comprising a host device and the information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network,

the host device comprising:

a comparator that compares first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device with second file information stored in a second storage unit of the host device, and extracts differential information; and

a transmitter that transmits the differential information to the information processing device, and

the information processing device comprising;

a receiver that receives the differential information; and

a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the second storage unit and not stored in the first storage unit based on the received differential information.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5 further comprising a display unit that displays file information in the index information in association with the first storage unit.

7. An information processing device that constitutes a file control system comprising a host device and the information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network,

the host device comprising:

a first storage unit that stores a file from the information processing device; and

a transmitter that sends the file to the information processing device, and

the information processing device comprising;

a second storage unit;

a list of information on a file transmitted from the information processing device to the host device, the list being stored in the second storage unit;

a file controller that reads file information stored in the second storage unit using an OS function of the information processing device;

a comparator that compares the list and the file information read from the file controller; and

a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the first storage unit and not stored in the second storage unit based on differential information obtained by the comparator.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7 further comprising a display unit that display file information based on the index information in association with the second storage unit.

9. A host device that constitutes a file control system comprising the host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network,

the host device comprising

a comparator that compares first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device with second file information stored in a second storage unit of the host device, and extracts differential information;

and

a transmitter that transmits the differential information to the information processing device, and

the information processing device comprising

a receiver that receives the differential information; and

a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the second storage unit and not stored in the first storage unit based on the received differential information.

10. The host device according to claim 9, wherein the information processing device further comprises a display unit that displays file information based on the index information in association with the first storage unit.

11. A recording medium storing a computer program executed by an information processing device that constitutes a system comprising a host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network, the program comprising:

comparing first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device with second file information stored in a second storage unit of the host device, and extracting differential information;

transmitting the differential information to the information processing device;

receiving the differential information; and

generating index information on a file that is stored in the second storage unit and not stored in the first storage unit based on the received differential information,

comparing the first file information and transmitting the differential information being executed in the host device, and receiving the differential information and generating the index information being executed in the information processing device.

12. The recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the computer program further comprises displaying file information based on the index information in association with the first storage unit, and displaying the file information is executed in the processing device.

13. A recording medium storing a computer program executed by an information processing device that constitutes a system comprising a host device and the information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network, the program comprising:

storing a file from the information processing device in a first storage unit of the host device;

sending the file to the information processing device;

storing a list of information on a file transmitted from the information processing device to the host device, the list being stored in a second storage unit of the information processing device;

using an OS function of the information processing device to read the file information stored in the second storage unit;

comparing the list and the file information read in using the OS function; and

generating index information on a file that is stored in the first storage unit and not stored in the second storage unit based on differential information obtained by the comparator,

storing the file and sending the file being executed in the host device, and storing the list, using the OS function, comparing the list and generating the index information being executed in the information processing device.

14. The recording medium according to claim 13, wherein the program further comprises displaying file information based on the index information in association with the second storage unit, and displaying the file information is executed in the information processing device.

15. An information processing device that constitutes a file control system comprising a host device and the information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network,

the host device comprising:

a first storage unit that stores a file from the information processing device; and

a transmitter that sends the file stored in the first storage unit to the information processing device, and

the information processing device comprising;

a second storage unit;

a list of information on a file transmitted from the information processing device to the host device, the list being stored in the second storage unit;

a file controller that reads file information stored in the second storage unit using an OS function of the information processing device;

a comparator that compares the list and the file information read from the file controller;

a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the first storage unit and not stored in the second storage un it based on differential information obtained by the comparator; and

a file controller that adds information of the list to a list of the file information stored in the second storage unit to expand the list of the file information as a list of logical file information of the second storage unit.

16. An information processing device that constitutes a file control system comprising a host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network,

the host device comprising:

a first storage unit that stores a file from the information processing device; and

a transmitter that sends the file to the information processing device, and

the information processing device comprising;

a second storage unit;

a list of file information transmitted from the information processing device to the host device, the list being stored in the second storage unit;

a file controller that reads file information stored in the second storage unit using an OS function of the information processing device;

a comparator that compares the list and the file information read from the file controller;

a generator that generates index information on a file that is stored in the first storage unit and not stored in the second storage unit based on differential information obtained from the comparator;

a display unit that displays file information based on the index information in association with the second storage unit; and

a display converter that, before a display format of the file information of the list is inputted to the file controller, converts the display format to a display format that differs from that of a file in the first storage unit.