METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING FILE HAVING UNKNOWN FORMAT

• US 20150113009A1
• Filed: 06/07/2013
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Zhou, Peng, Wang, Baojian
• Application Number:
  US14/407,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20150113009A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/755
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/116 Details of conversion of file system types or formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/148 File search processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57

Abstract

Provided in an example of the present disclosure are a method and apparatus for processing a file having an unknown format, the method comprising: parsing the file header of the file having an unknown format so as to acquire a file format keyword from the file header; determining the file format type of the file having an unknown format, based on the file format keyword, and acquiring an application associated with the unknown file having the format according to the file format type. After the method in the example of the present disclosure is applied, the software environment required for opening this type of file can be determined based on file header analysis, thus avoiding the situation of file format being misjudged in the prior art because the file format and the associated program are determined on the basis of the suffix, thus improving the matching success rate of the associated program.

Claims

1. (canceled)

6. A method for processing files in unknown formats, comprising:

parsing a file header of a file in an unknown format to obtain a file format keyword from the file header; and

determining a file format type of the file based on the file format keyword, and identifying an application associated with the file according to the file format type;

pre-establishing a relation list which stores a relation which associates the file format keyword with the file format type and a relation which associates the file format type with the application; and

wherein the determining a file format type of the file based on the file format keyword and identifying an application associated with the file comprises;

searching the relation list for a file format type associated with the file format keyword, and determining the file format type found as the file format type of the file; and

searching the relation list for an application associated with the file format type, and determining the application found as the application associated with the file.

2. The method of claim 6, wherein the parsing a file header of a file in an unknown format to obtain a file format keyword from the file header comprises:

parsing the file header of the file to obtain a hexadecimal file format keyword from the file header.

3. The method of claim 6, wherein the parsing a file header of a file in an unknown format to obtain a file format keyword from the file header comprises:

parsing the file header of the file to obtain text information, and obtaining the file format keyword according to the text information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the obtaining the file format keyword according to the text information comprises:

obtaining a company name, a software name or a software version number.

5. The method of claim 6, wherein the parsing a file header of a file to obtain a file format keyword from the file header comprises:

identifying a file header area of the file according to an identifier of the file header; and

searching the file header area for the file format keyword.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

judging whether the application associated with the file has been installed; and

adding a relation which associates the file with the application into a registry in response to a determination that the application has been installed, or pushing a method of downloading the application associated with the file to a user in response to a determination that the application has not been installed.

8. (canceled)

13. An apparatus for processing files in unknown formats, comprising a file header parsing unit and an application identifying unit, wherein

the file header parsing unit is configured for parsing a file header of a file in an unknown format using a processor to obtain a file format keyword from the file header;

and

the application identifying unit is configured for determining a file format type of the file based on the file format keyword using a processor, and identifying an application associated with the file according to the file format type;

wherein

the application identifying unit is configured for searching a pre-established relation list for a file format type associated with the file format keyword, and determine the file format type found as the file format type of the file, searching the relation list for an application associated with the file format type, and determining the application found as the application associated with the file;

wherein the relation list stores a relation which associates the file format keyword with the file format type and a relation which associates the file format type with the application.

9. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein

the file header parsing unit is configured for parsing the file header of the file to obtain a hexadecimal file format keyword from the file header.

10. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein

the file header parsing unit is configured for parsing the file header of the file in the unknown format to obtain text information, and obtaining the file format keyword according to the text information.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein

the file header parsing unit is configured for parsing the file header of the file to obtain text information, and obtaining a company name, a software name or a software version number from the text information.

12. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein

the file header parsing unit is configured for identifying a file header area of the file using an identifier of the file header, and searching the file header area for the file format keyword.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising a software recommending unit, wherein

the software recommending unit is configured for judging whether the application associated with the file has been installed using a processor, and adding a relation which associates the file with the application into a registry in response to a determination that the application has been installed, or pushing a method of downloading the application associated with the file to a user in response to a determination that the application has not been installed.

15. A method for processing files in unknown formats, comprising:

pre-establishing a list of relations which associates file format keywords with file format types;

judging whether a file in an unknown format includes a file header;

parsing the file header of the file to obtain a file format keyword from the file header in response to a determination that the file includes a file header, searching the list for a file format type associated with the file format keyword obtained, and identifying an application associated with the file using the file format type of the file, or

popping up a default windowed for software recommendation of a Windows operating system to enable a user to download an application which the user regards to be associated with the file from the Internet or to select an application from locally installed applications; and

opening the file using the application.

16. (canceled)