Apparatus and method for file management of portable device

• US 7,058,659 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2002
• Issued: 06/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Ho-yong
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Uyen
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEN, TE Y
• Application Number:
  US10/125,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20030018610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 707/102, 710/28, 725/93
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for managing a vast amount of file in a portable device. The file management apparatus of the portable device includes a disk engine which reads attribute information of a file recorded in a recording medium, an input unit which inputs a command for editing the stored attribute information, a controller which controls the portable device to record/reproduce the file corresponding to the read attribute information, and a display unit which displays the attribute information to allow an user to edit the attribute information. The attribute of the file recorded in the recording medium can be edited by an editing command, and each file is processed in accordance with the attribute information. Accordingly, the user can easily manage the vast amount of information.

Claims

1. A file management apparatus of a portable device for recording/reproducing a file into/from a recording medium, comprising:

a disk engine which reads attribute information of the file recorded in the recording medium;

a controller which controls the portable device to record/reproduce the file corresponding to the attribute information;

an input unit having a key which edits the attribute information, wherein the controller updates the attribute information recorded in the recording medium by editing the attribute information of the file in accordance with an input edit command by the input unit;

a memory which receives and stores the attribute information from the recording medium; and

a display unit which displays the attribute information stored in the memory to allow a user to edit the attribute information,

wherein the attribute information stored into the memory includes at least one attribute information among a hiding, writing, file name changing, file route, and deleting with respect to the file,

wherein the controller displays edited attribute information on the display unit in response to editing by the input unit of at least one of the attribute information among the hiding, writing, file name changing, file route, and deleting stored in the memory, and

wherein the controller displays a message asking whether to convert the attribute information of the file to writeable attribute information in response to a transmittal of a writing command key signal where the attribute information of the file is set up as unable to write, and processes the file corresponding to a replied signal with respect to converting the attribute information from the input unit.

2. The file management apparatus of a portable device of claim 1, wherein the recording medium comprises a digital convergence disk (DCD).

3. The file management apparatus of a portable device of claim 1, wherein the controller displays edited attribute information on the display unit in response to editing by the input unit of the attribute information read from the recording medium.

4. The file management apparatus of a portable device of claim 1, wherein the recording medium comprises a digital convergence disk (DCD).

5. The file management apparatus of a portable device of claim 1, further comprising layers which connect the disk engine and the controller, and include:

a physical layer which physically connects the disk engine and the controller,

a data-link layer which defines a method of exchanging information between the disk engine and the controller,

a command layer which records commands corresponding to data of the portable device, so as to control the data accessed from the disk engine, and

an application layer which includes a mapping of file data/meta data and a user interface.

6. A file management apparatus of a portable device for recording/reproducing a file into/from a recording medium, comprising:

a disk engine which reads attribute information of the file recorded in the recording medium;

a controller which controls the portable device to record/reproduce the file corresponding to the attribute information;

an input unit having a key which edits the attribute information, wherein the controller updates the attribute information recorded in the recording medium by editing the attribute information of the file in accordance with an input edit command by the input unit;

a memory which receives and stores the attribute information from the recording medium; and

an output unit which outputs the attribute information stored in the memory to allow a user to edit the attribute information, wherein the output unit comprises at least one of a display unit and a voice synthesizing unit,

wherein the controller;

outputs edited attribute information to the output unit in response to editing by the input unit of the attribute information read from the recording medium,

prompts the user for a reply signal whether to convert the attribute information to writeable attribute information in response to a transmittal of a writing commend key signal where the attribute information is set up as non-writeable, and

processes the file corresponding to the reply signal.

7. The file management apparatus of a portable device of claim 6, wherein the recording medium comprises a digital convergence disk (DCD).

8. A file management apparatus of a portable device for recording/reproducing a file into/from a recording medium, comprising:

a disk engine which reads attribute information of the file recorded in the recording medium; and

a controller which controls the portable device to record/reproduce the file corresponding to the attribute information,

wherein the disk engine comprises a register unit which allows communication between the disk engine and the controller, and

wherein the register unit comprises a control register, a status register, a byte counter and a data register, wherein the controller selects and accesses one of the control, status, byte and data registers, in accordance with a value of two bits of an address bit, to interface with the portable device.