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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2004
Applicants:
Haruo Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Kashiwagi, Tokyo, JP;
Masaharu Murakami, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Jinno, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayoshi Ohno, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Haruo Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Kashiwagi, Tokyo, JP;
Masaharu Murakami, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Jinno, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayoshi Ohno, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a file management technique using indexes, wherein retrieval results and conditions for retrieval are recorded and stored on an entry for a virtual folder on the index for efficient later use. By this feature, objects for retrieval can be refined by using the recorded retrieval results, so that the processing for retrieval can substantially be simplified.