Electronic device and file management method

• US 8,521,791 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2011
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chen, Yu-Chun, Kuo, Wen-Chieh
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CAM LINH T
• Application Number:
  US13/206,537
• Publication Number:
  US 20120233226A1
• Time in Patent Office: 748 Days
• Field of Search: 707/803, 707/805, 707/825, 345/173
• US Class Current: 707/822
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata

Abstract

In a file management method of an electronic device, multi-touch operations on a touch screen of the electronic device is detected in real-time. File attributes of operating objects of the electronic device that are selected by a multi-touch operation are acquired, and a file type is determined for each of the operating objects according to the file attributes of each of the operating objects, wherein the file type is a file or a folder. The operating objects are managed according to the file type of each of the operating objects.

Claims

1. A computerized method for managing files of an electronic device comprising a touch screen, the method comprising:

detecting a multi-touch operation on the touch screen in real-time;

determining a duration of time of the multi-touch operation on the touch screen, and determining if the duration of time is equal to a predetermined time period;

acquiring file attributes of operating objects of the electronic device that are selected by the multi-touch operation when the duration of time is equal to the predetermined time period, wherein the file attributes of each of the operating objects comprises a name, a size and a file type of the operating object, and time information when the operating object is created;

determining a file type for each of the operating objects according to the file attributes of each of the operating objects, wherein the file type is a file or a folder; and

managing the operating objects according to the file type of each of the operating objects.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the managing step comprises:

creating a new folder in a storage system of the electronic device and moving the operating objects into the new folder, if each of the operating objects is not a folder;

moving files of the operating objects into one folder of the operating objects, if the operating objects comprise one folder;

or

creating a new folder in the storage system and moving all of the operating objects into the new folder, if the operating objects comprise two or more folders.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the managing step comprises:

determining a folder from folders of the operating objects as a target folder, and moving the other operating objects into the target folder, if the operating objects comprise two or more folders.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the target folder is determined according to a name of each folder of the operating objects or time information when each folder is created.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the multi-touch operation refers to a presence of two or more points of contact that are simultaneously sensed by the touch screen.

6. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen;

at least one processor;

a storage system; and

one or more programs stored in the storage system and being executable by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising;

a detection module operable to detect a multi-touch operation on the touch screen in real-time, determine a duration of time of the multi-touch operation on the touch screen, and determine if the duration of time is equal to a predetermined time period;

an acquisition module operable to acquire file attributes of operating objects of the electronic device that are selected by the multi-touch operation when the duration of time is equal to the predetermined time period, and determine a file type for each of the operating objects according to the file attributes of each of the operating objects, wherein the file attributes of each of the operating objects comprises a name, a size and a file type of the operating object, and time information when the operating object is created, and the file type is a file or a folder; and

an execution module operable to manage the operating objects according to the file type of each of the operating objects.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the operating objects are managed by:

creating a new folder in the storage system and moving the operating objects into the new folder, if each of the operating objects is not a folder;

moving files of the operating objects into one folder of the operating objects, if the operating objects comprise one folder;

or

creating a new folder in the storage system, and moving all of the operating objects into the new folder, if the operating objects comprise two or more folders.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the operating objects are managed by determining a folder from folders of the operating objects as a target folder, and moving the other operating objects into the target folder, if the operating objects comprise two or more folders.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the target folder is determined according to a name of each folders of the operating objects or time information when each folder is created.

10. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the multi-touch operation refers to a presence of two or more points of contact that are simultaneously sensed by the touch screen.

11. A non-transitory storage medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions capable of being executed by a processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform a file management method, the method comprising:

detecting a multi-touch operation on a touch screen of the electronic device in real-time;

determining a duration of time of the multi-touch operation on the touch screen, and determining if the duration of time is equal to a predetermined time period;

acquiring file attributes of operating objects of the electronic device that are selected by the multi-touch operation when the duration of time is equal to the predetermined time period, wherein the file attributes of each of the operating objects comprises a name, a size and a file type of the operating object, and time information when the operating object is created;

determining a file type for each of the operating objects according to the file attributes of each of the operating objects, wherein the file type is a file or a folder; and

managing the operating objects according to the file type of each of the operating objects.

12. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the managing step comprises:

creating a new folder in a storage system of the electronic device and moving the operating objects into the new folder, if each of the operating objects is not a folder;

moving files of the operating object into one folder of the operating objects, if the operating objects comprise one folder;

or

creating a new folder in the storage system and moving all of the operating objects into the new folder, if the operating objects comprise two or more folders.

13. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the managing step comprises:

determining a folder from folders of the operating objects as a target folder, and moving the other operating objects into the target folder, if the operating objects comprise two or more folders.

14. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the target folder is determined according to a name of each folder of the operating objects or time information when each folder is created.

15. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the multi-touch operation refers to a presence of two or more points of contact that are simultaneously sensed by the touch screen.