KR20170140120A - Method for managing attribute information of file and computing device using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for managing attribute information of a file, and a computing device. The method for managing attribute information of a file comprises: (a) a step in which a first computing device receives a file including first source information as attribute information from a second computing device or a third computing device connected through the second computing device; and (b) a step in which the first computing device enables a file system to obtain second source information from information related to the first computing device, information related to the second computing device, or information related to the third computing device connected through the second computing device, to add the second source information to the first source information as the attribute information of the file, and to store the same. Accordingly, a user can rapidly and easily find a desired file from a plurality of files.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing attribute information of a file,

The present invention relates to a method and a computing device for managing attribute information of a file.

Due to the development and universalization of computers today, the number of files managed by computers is increasing. In particular, documents such as reports, plans, and contracts that have been processed by paper in the past are now managed in the form of electronic documents through a computer and are divided into more detailed versions than those used in paper processing. As a result, the total amount of managed electronic documents is continuously increasing, and in recent years, electronic documents can be managed through various mobile devices, and the number of electronic documents is increasing.

However, there is a problem that it is difficult to find a file that a user wants to search among such a large number of files. Usually, this problem occurs because the user can not accurately memorize the location or file name where the file is stored. The user can use a file searching program such as an explorer or a finder to search for a file to be searched, but this also causes difficulty in finding the file name or the folder in which the file is stored. Because the file searching program searches the file by comparing the keyword and the attribute information inputted by the user in order to efficiently search for a file to be searched in a large number of files, the attribute information of the file currently contains only a little information about the file And the keywords that the user can input are limited. That is, the information stored as attribute information for the current electronic document is a file creation time, a file modification time, a file name, a file size, a file creator, and a file format.

For this reason, it is an object of the present invention to allow a user to quickly and easily find a file to be searched among several files.

Another object of the present invention is to make it easy to grasp the source of the file and the distribution process of the file.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing attribute information of a file, comprising the steps of: (a) a first computing device, which transmits a file containing first source information as attribute information to a second computing device or the second computing device Receiving from a third computing device connected through the third computing device; And (b) wherein the first computing device is configured to cause the file system to communicate information associated with the first computing device, information associated with the second computing device, or with the third computing device accessed through the second computing device. Acquiring second source information from the information, and adding the second source information to the first source information as the attribute information of the file and storing the second source information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a computing device that manages attribute information of a file includes a file containing first source information as attribute information, to a second computing device or a third computing device connected through the second computing device, And a communication unit And a file system to obtain second source information from information associated with the first computing device, information associated with the second computing device, or information associated with the third computing device accessed through the second computing device And a processor for adding and storing the second source information to the first source information as the attribute information of the file.

According to the present invention, by defining an element that a user can memorize with respect to a file as attribute information, it is possible to help a user quickly and easily find a file to be searched among several files through a link between the file and the memory.

In addition, according to the present invention, the process of producing a file can be cumulatively recorded in the attribute information, so that the source of the file can be easily grasped, which is a criterion for judging the value of a file to be stored.

1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration for recording attribute information of a file according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 2A and 2B illustrate exemplary operations of a file system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram for explaining exemplary attribute information obtained in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different, but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, certain features, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in connection with an embodiment. It is also to be understood that the position or arrangement of the individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be varied without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is to be limited only by the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled, if properly explained. In the drawings, like reference numerals refer to the same or similar functions throughout the several views.

1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration for recording attribute information of a file according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1, a computing device for managing attribute information of a file according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a user process 100, a file system 200, a storage device 300, The process 100, the file system 200, and the storage device 300 may be driven by a processor and a communication unit of the computing device.

First, the user process 100 is an application program, a sub-program, etc., created for the purpose of performing a specific business process, and can request the operating system to store a file through system call. The user process 100 is a document creation program, an e-mail program, a browser program, and the like in particular.

The file system 200 attaches a name to a file, and indicates a place where the file is to be stored in the storage device 300 for storage or retrieval. The file system 200 may obtain source information about the file and store the information as attribute information. The file system 200 may be applied to an existing file system 200 such as FAT, NTFS, UFS, ext2 or the like and may be a file system 200 to be newly created.

Here, the source information is information indicating who created the file and where it was acquired, and may include at least one of author information and file acquisition path information. In the source information, information indicating which file is created or acquired in which computing device having an IP address, in which physical location the file was created, and in which folder the file was previously stored is stored as IP information, Information and folder history information may be further included.

The storage device 300 is an apparatus that can temporarily or permanently store data, and may be any of an auxiliary storage device, a main storage device, and a special storage device. The storage device 300 is not necessarily physically contained in the computing device, but may be located external to the computing device.

The file system 200 according to the present invention will be described in detail through the following detailed description.

FIGS. 2A and 2B illustrate exemplary operations of the file system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A, when a request for storing a file is generated from the user process 100, the request can be transferred to a virtual file system (VFS) or a real file system, The basic information of the file such as the process ID, the file path, and the file name is transmitted to the virtual file system. Thereafter, the virtual file system verifies the validity of the file path, confirms the file system 200 of the file path to the device manager, and transmits the storage request to the appropriate file system 200, And records the data information and attribute information of the file in the storage device 300 with reference to the information received from the system. 2B, when the virtual file system does not exist, the basic attribute information of the file such as the data information of the file, the process ID, the file path, and the file name is directly transferred to the file system, And attribute information to the storage device 300. [

The file system 200 can acquire and store the source information as attribute information in addition to the basic attribute information of the file.

Table 1 below shows basic attribute information of files managed by NTFS (New Technology File System).

Start address (relative address) Attribute name Explanation 0X10 STANDARD INFORMATION (required) General information such as file creation time, file modification time, owner, etc. 0X20 ATTRIBUTE LIST List of additional properties 0X30 FILE_NAME (required) The name of the file,
File creation time, modification time 0X40 VOLUME VERSION Volume information (WINDOWS NT) 0X40 OBJECT_ID Information for 16-bit systems 0X50 SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR File access control 0X60 VOLUME NAME Volume name 0X70 VOLUME INFORMATION The version setting information of the file system 200 0X80 DATA (required) File contents 0X90 INDEX_ROOT INTEX TRUTHERNODE 0XA0 INDEX_ALLOCATION Node associated with index root 0XB0 BITMAP MFT and index allocation information 0XC0 SYMBOLIC LINK Link information (WINDOWS2000 or later) 0XC0 REPARSE POINT Link information (WINDOWS2000 or later) 0XD0 EA INFORMATION OS / 2 Compatibility Information 0XE0 EA OS / 2 Compatibility Information 0X100 LOGGED UTILITY STREAM Key value for encrypted attribute lookup
(WINDOWS 2000 or later)

Referring to Table 1, in addition to the basic attributes, the source information is additionally stored in the NTFS as attribute information. First of all, among the 17 attributes defined by default in NTFS, those recorded as attribute information of a file are file creator, file Name, creation time of the file, modification time of the file, data (file content) of the file, etc. However, in the present invention, the source information is added as the attribute information. Specifically, source information may be added by recording the start address and the attribute name of the source information in the ATTRIBUTE LIST, which is a basic property of NTFS, and attribute information may be added in addition to the source information.

The attribute information that can be added in addition to the basic attribute information includes source information (which may include at least one of author information, file acquisition path information, IP information, physical location information, and folder history information), version information, Information (which may include weather information), and date information, which will be described in detail below.

First, the source information about the file is stored as attribute information. When the file system 200 acquires the storage request information for the file, the source information about the file can be acquired and stored as the attribute information. If the file is received from a third computing device connected through another computing device or another computing device and the source information is already included in the file as attribute information, then all of the source information is included as attribute information Can be managed.

Specifically, when the first computing device receives the file containing the first source information as the attribute information from the second computing device or a third computing device connected through the second computing device, To cause the file system 200 to obtain second source information from information associated with the first computing device, information associated with the second computing device, or information associated with the third computing device accessed through the second computing device, The second source information may be added to the first source information as attribute information of the file and stored.

If the source information for the file is the author information, the first computing device causes the file system 200 to obtain the second source information from the information related to the first computing device, and as the attribute information of the file If the source information for the file is the file acquisition path information, then the first computing device may cause the file system 200 to perform the second computing < RTI ID = 0.0 > To acquire second source information from the information related to the device or information related to the third computing device accessed through the second computing device, and to add and store the second source information in the first source information as the attribute information of the file can do. When the source information on the file is IP information or folder history information, the first computing device causes the file system 200 to acquire the second source information from the IP information or the folder history information of the first computing device , The first computing device may store the second source information in the first source information as the attribute information of the file and store the second source information in the file system 200 if the source information for the file is physical location information, To acquire the second source information through the location confirmation method for confirming the location of the first computing device and to add the second source information to the first source information as the attribute information of the file. Such physical location validation methods include, but are not limited to, methods utilizing a Global Positioning System (GPS) system, triangulation based on the strength between signals from cellular communication base stations, or using addresses known to correspond to the IP information on the network Methods, and the like, but will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

Here, the first computing device is a computing device having a configuration as shown in FIG. 2A or 2B, and the second computing device is a terminal device used by another user who has transmitted the corresponding file to the first computing device. The third computing device may correspond to the e-mail server device when another user accesses a predetermined e-mail server using the second computing device and attaches the corresponding file to the e-mail.

At this time, the information related to the second computing device may be the ID of the second computing device, the owner information of the second computing device, and the information related to the third computing device may include information about the corresponding e-mail server, User information, and the like.

Here, the first source information is source information obtained prior to the second source information, and the file system 200 stores the attribute for distinguishing the existing first source information from the newly acquired second source information Identifiers can be assigned and stored sequentially.

In this case, when the creator information is acquired as the source information, the file system 200 can acquire the name of the user computer from the system information. In the case of acquiring the file acquisition path information as the source information, Path information can be obtained.

For example, when a user named Suzy creates and saves a Hangul file called 'industry proposal.hwp', the Hangul program requests a request to save 'industry proposal.hwp' to the file system 200 through a system call And the file system 200 can acquire author information as the source information of the 'industrial proposal.hwp' and store it in the attribute information, and the author information may be Suzy's computing device name. If Suzy then sends Bob an "Industry Proposal .hwp" and Bob modifies it to Bob's computing device, the attribute information in the "Industry Proposal .hwp" contains the first author's information (Suzy's computing device name ), The file system 200 (which is the file system of Bob's computing device) can obtain Bob's computing device name as second author information and store it as attribute information.

At this time, since the first author information and the second author information stored as the attribute information of the 'industry proposal .hwp' are the same as the author type information, attribute identifiers are assigned to distinguish each, and identifiers are given in a time series . This is for sequentially recording the persons who created the file. Through this, the user can intuitively check the production process of the file through the attribute information, and can easily search the file.

2A and 2B, the file system 200 may include an information inquiry module 250. When a request to store a file is generated from a predetermined mail program, (200) can acquire e-mail sender information included in a packet from the information inquiry module (250) and store it as file acquisition path information. Usually, a user often uses e-mail to deliver a file to another user. When a file included in an e-mail is downloaded and stored, the e-mail address of the e-mail sender is stored as attribute information, If you remember which email you received from someone, you can also search for the file by entering the email address as a keyword.

Here, the information inquiry module 250 may be a program capable of analyzing a packet obtained through a network device, and may include at least a part of a network analysis program of at least one of sniffer, wireshark, tcpdump, and snoop.

The file system 200 can acquire creator information or file acquisition path information when a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition is a condition for limiting the number of times of acquiring and storing the creator information or file acquisition path information . For example, if the author information is recorded every time a specific file is modified and the number of times the author information is acquired is limited to 10, the file system 200 may notify the ten It is possible to save the name of the computing device that modified the specific file as creator information for the 11th time after reducing the total number of creator information by selectively recording only the creator information that is not duplicated among the creator information. Also, the file system 200 may delete the first author information to maintain a total of ten author information (second to eleventh author information), but the present invention is not limited thereto.

By limiting the number of times of acquiring the author information or the file acquisition path information, it is possible to prevent the source information from being recorded and accumulated as the attribute information every time the file is slightly modified.

In addition, the file system 200 may adjust a predetermined condition according to the level corresponding to the creator information. If the source information is to be recorded all or frequently as the specific file is modified, the level corresponding to the creator information , For example, a level corresponding to the computing device can be set and a predetermined condition can be adjusted according to the set level.

Next, description will be given of storing version information about the file as attribute information. When the file system 200 acquires the storage request information for the file, it acquires the version information determined in accordance with the preset rule as the attribute information . The predefined rules can be defined differently depending on whether the file is newly created, the file is modified, the file is saved, or the file name is changed.

According to a predetermined rule, when the file is newly created and the original file for the file does not exist, the file system 200 can determine the basic version as the version information of the file and store it as the attribute information. Here, the basic version may be set to ver.1.0, but is not limited thereto.

On the other hand, if an original file exists for a file, the file system 200 determines version information of the original file as version information by determining that the data information of the file is modified according to a predetermined rule, As shown in Fig. If it is determined that the file storing path or the file name of the file is modified, the file system 200 may determine the version information of the original file as the version information and store it as the attribute information.

Next, the state information or the date information of the file is stored as the attribute information. The file system 200 stores status information indicating the weather at the time when the file is stored or date information when the file is stored, Further information can be acquired and stored. When the weather information or the date / time information at the time when the file is stored is stored as the attribute information, the user can search for the file by inputting the weather condition at the time of acquiring the file, the date, and the season. Here, the weather information is accumulated in advance through a small information retrieval and storage system (e.g., a lightweight DB such as SQLITE, or a memory) associated with the file system 200, and when the file is stored, Can be obtained by inquiring the corresponding weather.

When the file containing the first situation information or the first temporary information as the attribute information is received from the third computing device connected through another computing device or another computing device, the file system 200 stores, as attribute information of the file, The second situation information or the second temporal information at the time when the file is stored in the situation information or the first temporary information may be added and stored. Here, the first situation information or the first temporal information is information obtained in advance of the second situation information or the second temporal information, and the file system 200 stores the property information in order to distinguish the existing information from the newly acquired information After the identifiers are assigned, they can be stored sequentially.

On the other hand, at least one of basic attribute information and attribute information (source information, version information, situation information, date information, etc.) that can be added may be included in the file name of the file.

3 is a diagram for explaining exemplary attribute information obtained in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 3, attribute information recorded when files are sequentially modified by Suzy, Bob, and Mina will be described as an example. Suzy, Bob, and Mina each have a name of a user's computing device Explain.

First, when Suzy creates and stores a Hangul file named 'hwp' in January 21, 2016 at 5:00 pm, the attribute information for the 'industry proposal.hwp' file is recorded as shown in Table 2 below .

Attribute name Constructor
Information Generation time
Information program
Information version
Information Author Information Pause
Information File Acquisition Path
Information Contents Suzy 2016-01-21 17:00 Hangeul Hangul 1.0 Suzy 2016-01-21 17:00 -

Here, the creator information, the creation time information, and the program information among the attribute information of the 'industrial part proposal.hhp' file are basically included attribute information, and version information, author information, file acquisition path information, and date information are additionally acquired and stored Attribute information.

Specifically, the producer information and the author information may be the names of the computing devices of Suzy. The producer information is information about the user who originally created the file. The creator information is information accumulated by the users who modify the file. , The producer information and the author information are recorded in the same manner.

Meanwhile, since the generation time information is information on the time when the file is generated and the date and time information is information on cumulatively recorded times of the file modification, Suzy has created the 'industrial part proposal.hwp' file first, The information is recorded equally.

Since the 'industry proposal.hwp' file is the first generated file, the version information is recorded as ver. 1.0, and there is no file acquisition path information.

If Suzy creates the file and attaches the file to e-mail and sends it to Bob. If Bob downloads the file and stores it in Bob's computing device, the attribute information for the 'industry proposal .hwp' file is Can be recorded as shown in Table 3 below.

Attribute name Constructor
Information Generation time
Information program
Information version
Information Author Information Pause
Information File Acquisition Path
Information Contents Suzy 2016-01-21 17:00 Hangeul Hangul 1.0 Suzy 2016-01-21 17:00 sy123@naver.com

At this time, among the attribute information of the 'industrial proposal .hwp' file downloaded by Bob, the information excluding the file acquisition path information may be the same as the attribute information of the file initially created by Suzy, and the file acquisition path information may be the Suzy's e-mail address Lt; / RTI > The sender email address can be obtained by the file system analyzing the packet through the information acquisition module as described above.

After that, when Bob saves the 'Industry Proposal .hwp' file at 11:00 am on January 22, 2016, the attribute information for 'Industry Proposal .hwp' file can be recorded as shown in Table 4 below. have.

Attribute name Constructor
Information Generation time
Information program
Information version
Information Author Information Pause
Information File Acquisition Path
Information Contents Suzy 2016-01-21 17:00 Hangeul Hangul 1.5 Suzy,
Bob 2016-01-21 17:00,
2016-01-22 11:00 sy123@naver.com

Here, the version information, the author information, and the date information may be changed or added among the attribute information of the 'industrial proposal .hwp' file. Since Bob has modified the file, the version information may be changed to 1.5 according to a preset rule Bob may be added to the author information, and the date and time may be added to the date and time when the file was modified.

If Bob corrects the file and sends the file to Mina by attaching it to the email and Mina saves the file to Mina's computing device and corrects it at 1 pm on January 28, 2016, Mina The attribute information of the 'industry proposal .hwp' file stored in the computing device of FIG.

Attribute name Constructor
Information Generation time
Information program
Information version
Information Author Information Pause
Information File Acquisition Path
Information Contents Suzy 2016-01-21 17:00 Hangeul Hangul 2.0 Suzy,
Bob,
Mina 2016-01-21 17:00,
2016-01-22 11:00,
2016-01-28 13:00 sy123@naver.com,
rice@daum.com

At this time, the version information, the author information, and the date information may be changed or added among the attribute information of the 'industrial proposal .hwp' file. Since Mina has modified the file, the version information is changed to 2.0 according to the preset rule Mina is added to the author information, and the date and time when the file was modified can be added to the date and time information.

In the future, when searching for 'industry proposal .hwp' as a file searching program, Mina can easily find a file by using information recorded as attribute information of the file as a keyword. For example, if you remember that Mina received the file via email from Bob, you could search for it by typing Bob's email address (rice@daum.com) as a keyword.

Although not described here, it goes without saying that context information indicating the weather at the time when the file is stored may be further included as attribute information.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims. Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the above-described embodiments, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims, as well as the following claims, I will say.

100: User process
200: File system
300: storage device

Claims (24)

A method for managing attribute information of a file,
(a) receiving, by the first computing device, a file containing first source information as attribute information from a second computing device or a third computing device connected through the second computing device; And
(b) the first computing device is configured to cause the file system to provide information associated with the first computing device, information associated with the second computing device, or information associated with the third computing device accessed via the second computing device Acquiring second source information from the first source information and storing the second source information in addition to the first source information as the attribute information of the file;
≪ / RTI > The method according to claim 1,
The step (b)
Wherein the file system provides an attribute identifier for distinguishing the existing first source information and the newly acquired second source information, and sequentially stores the attribute identifier. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the source information for the file includes at least one of author information and file acquisition path information. The method of claim 3,
If the source information for the file is author information,
The step (b)
Wherein the first computing device is configured to cause the file system to obtain second source information from information associated with the first computing device and to provide the second source information with the first source information as the attribute information of the file And storing the additional information. The method of claim 3,
If the source information for the file is file acquisition path information,
The step (b)
Wherein the first computing device causes the file system to obtain second source information from information associated with the second computing device or information associated with the third computing device accessed through the second computing device, And the second source information is added to the first source information as the attribute information of the file. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first computing device further causes the file system to acquire and store version information determined in accordance with a predetermined rule as the attribute information. The method according to claim 6,
The pre-
If the original file for the file does not exist, determines the basic version as the version information of the file,
(I) if the data information of the file is determined to be modified, the version information of the original file is increased to determine the version information, and (ii) the file is stored Path or the file name of the file is modified, the version information of the original file is determined as the version information. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first computing device further causes the file system to acquire and store status information indicating weather at the time when the file is stored or date information when the file is stored as the attribute information Way. 9. The method of claim 8,
When the first computing device receives the file containing the first status information or the first temporary information as the attribute information from the third computing device connected through the second computing device or the second computing device, The file system may further include second state information or second state information at the time of storing the file in addition to the first state information or the first state information as the attribute information of the file. Way. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first computing device includes at least one piece of attribute information of the file in the file name of the file. The method according to claim 1,
If the file system is NTFS (New Technology File System), it is possible to store the source information by the file system by recording the start address and the attribute name of the source information in ATTRIBUTE LIST which is a basic attribute of the file system ≪ / RTI > The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the source information for the file includes at least one of IP information, physical location information, and folder history information. A computing device for managing attribute information of a file,
A communication unit for receiving a file including first source information as attribute information from a second computing device or a third computing device connected through the second computing device; And
To cause the file system to obtain second source information from information associated with the first computing device, information associated with the second computing device, or information associated with the third computing device accessed through the second computing device, A processor for adding and storing the second source information to the first source information as the attribute information of the file;
≪ / RTI > 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the file system sequentially stores an attribute identifier for distinguishing the existing first source information and the newly acquired second source information. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the source information for the file includes at least one of author information and file acquisition path information. 16. The method of claim 15,
If the source information for the file is author information,
Wherein the first computing device is configured to cause the file system to obtain second source information from information associated with the first computing device and to provide the second source information with the first source information as the attribute information of the file And stores the additional information. 16. The method of claim 15,
If the source information for the file is file acquisition path information,
Wherein the first computing device causes the file system to obtain second source information from information associated with the second computing device or information associated with the third computing device accessed through the second computing device, And adds the second source information to the first source information as the attribute information of the file. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the processor causes the file system to further acquire and store version information determined according to a predetermined rule as the attribute information. 19. The method of claim 18,
The pre-
If the original file for the file does not exist, determines the basic version as the version information of the file,
(I) if the data information of the file is determined to be modified, the version information of the original file is increased to determine the version information, and (ii) the file is stored The version information of the original file is determined as the version information if it is determined that the path or file name of the file is modified. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the processor is further configured to cause the file system to further acquire and store, as the attribute information, status information indicating weather at the time when the file is stored or date and time when the file is stored. 21. The method of claim 20,
When the file containing the first status information or the first temporary information as attribute information is received from the third computing device connected through the second computing device or the second computing device, And stores the second status information or the second temporary information at the time of storing the file in the first status information or the first temporary information as the attribute information of the file. 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the processor includes at least one piece of attribute information of the file in a file name of the file. 14. The method of claim 13,
If the file system is NTFS (New Technology File System), it is possible to store the source information by the file system by recording the start address and the attribute name of the source information in ATTRIBUTE LIST which is a basic attribute of the file system ≪ / RTI > 14. The method of claim 13,
Wherein the source information for the file includes at least one of IP information, physical location information, and folder history information.

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