Data management method and apparatus of portable terminal

• US 8,862,549 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2010
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sang Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Casanova, Jorge A
• Application Number:
  US12/804,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022568A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,546 Days
• Field of Search: 707/640, 711/2, 711/162, 711/165
• US Class Current: 707/640
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2308 Concurrency control transaction processing G06F9/466

Abstract

A data management method and apparatus of a portable terminal improves memory utilization efficiency using a data move/copy function which allows moving or copying the user data preserved in the non-volatile memory region of the memory of a portable terminal. A data management method for a portable terminal includes selecting at least one user data item in response to a selection request. An extended region for backup of the user data item is checked in response to a backup request. Transfer data corresponding to the user data item is created. The transfer data is stored in the extended region as a backup of the user data item.

Claims

1. A data management method for a portable terminal, the method comprising:

storing user data in a plurality of basic regions of a user data storage region, wherein each of the plurality of basic regions store different types of user data and the plurality of basic regions are used as extended regions;

selecting user data stored in one basic region of the plurality of basic regions;

identifying at least one other basic region of the plurality of basic regions as an extended region for backup of the selected user data in response to a backup request;

generating transfer data corresponding to the selected user data; and

storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region as the backup of the selected user data,

wherein the selected user data of the one basic region and the transfer data of the at least one other basic region are managed in one category.

2. The data management method of claim 1, wherein the extended region further comprises an external region of an external storage medium attached to the portable terminal.

3. The data management method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether to delete the selected user data after being backed up.

4. The data management method of claim 3, wherein determining whether to delete the selected user data comprises:

deleting, when the backup request is a move request, the selected user data from the user data storage region after storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region; and

maintaining, when the backup request is a copy request, the selected user data in the user data storage region after storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region.

5. The data management method of claim 1, wherein the user data stored in the basic and extended regions and assigned to an identical category are managed in a database form.

6. The data management method of claim 1, further comprising identifying available capacity of the extended region before storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region.

7. The data management method of claim 1, wherein the transfer data is stored in the at least one other basic region in a data format that is identical to a data format of the selected user data.

8. The data management method of claim 2, further comprising determining whether the extended region is one of individually separated basic regions or the external region.

9. The data management method of claim 2, wherein storing the transfer data comprises:

identifying a category of the selected user data;

determining whether a category region corresponding to the category of the selected user data exists in the extended region; and

creating the category region in the extended region in response to determining that the category region corresponding to the category of the selected user data does not exist in the extended region.

10. The data management method of claim 9, wherein storing the transfer data comprises saving the transfer data into the category region of the extended region as the backup of the selected user data in response to determining that the category region exists in the extended region.

17. The data management method of claim 1, wherein the basic region is a storage region specific to a particular type of the at least one user data.

20. The data management method of claim 1, wherein:

identifying the extended region comprises identifying information fields of the at least one user data from format information in response to the backup request; and

generating the transfer data comprises generating the transfer data in a data format corresponding to the at least one user data to maintain the information fields.

11. A data management method for a portable terminal, the method comprising:

storing user data in a plurality of basic regions of an internal storage region of a memory, wherein each of the plurality of basic regions store different types of user data and the plurality of basic regions are used as extended regions;

detecting a backup request for backing up user data stored in a certain basic region among the plurality of basic regions of the internal storage region;

generating transfer data representing the user data;

storing the transfer data into at least one other basic region of the plurality of basic regions as an extended region for backup of the user data; and

determining a backup mode of the backup request that indicates one of maintaining the user data in the internal storage region and deleting the user data from the internal storage region after storing the transfer data,

wherein the user data of the certain basic region and the transfer data of the at least one other basic region are managed in one category.

12. The data management method of claim 11, further comprising:

deleting, when the backup mode of the backup request is a move request, the user data from the internal storage region after storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region; and

maintaining, when the backup mode of the backup request is a copy request, the user data in the internal storage region after storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region.

13. The data management method of claim 11, wherein storing the transfer data comprises:

identifying a category of the user data;

determining whether a category region corresponding to the category of the user data exists in the extended region; and

creating the category region in the extended region when the category region corresponding to the category of the user data does not exist in the extended region.

14. The data management method of claim 13, wherein storing the transfer data further comprises saving the transfer data into the category region of the extended region as the backup of the user data if the category region exists in the extended region.

18. The data management method of claim 11, wherein the basic region is a storage region specific to a particular type of the user data.

21. The data management method of claim 11, wherein generating the transfer data comprises:

identifying information fields of the user data from format information; and

generating the transfer data representing the user data in a data format corresponding to the user data to maintain the information fields in response to the backup request.

15. A portable terminal comprising:

a user interface configured to receive user input;

a memory configured to store user data in a plurality of basic regions of an internal storage region, wherein each of the plurality of basic regions store different types of the user data; and

a controller coupled to the user interface, a display, and the memory, the controller configured to;

detect a backup request from the user input for backing up the user data stored in a certain basic region among the plurality of basic regions of the internal storage region of the memory,

generate transfer data representing the user data,

store the transfer data into at least one other basic region of the plurality of basic regions as an extended region for backup of the user data, and

determine a backup mode of the backup request that indicates one of maintaining the user data in the internal storage region and deleting the user data from the internal storage region after storing the transfer data,

wherein the at least one other basic region of the internal storage is used as the extended region, and

wherein the user data of the certain basic region and the transfer data of the at least one other basic region are managed in one category.

16. The portable terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to:

delete the user data from the internal storage region after storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region in response to determining that the backup mode of the backup request is a move request; and

maintain the user data in the internal storage region after storing the transfer data in the at least one other basic region in response to determining that the backup mode of the backup request is a copy request.

19. The portable terminal of claim 15, wherein the basic region is a storage region specific to a particular type of the user data.

22. The portable terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is configured to identify information fields of the user data format information and generate the transfer data representing the user data in a data format corresponding to the user data to maintain the information fields in response to the backup request.