WO2021135820A1 - Method for storage management of media content on electronic device, electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium - Google Patents

Method for storage management of media content on electronic device, electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Download PDF

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WO2021135820A1
WO2021135820A1 PCT/CN2020/133944 CN2020133944W WO2021135820A1 WO 2021135820 A1 WO2021135820 A1 WO 2021135820A1 CN 2020133944 W CN2020133944 W CN 2020133944W WO 2021135820 A1 WO2021135820 A1 WO 2021135820A1
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Sumit Kumar Tiwary
Thammu BHARADWAJ
Vinod Sharma
Anuj Kumar
Rahul Kumar TRIPATHI
Manoj Kumar
Sandeep kumar RAI
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  • the present disclosure generally relates to the field of storage management, and more particularly to a system for storage management of media content on an electronic device, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
  • Storage management in an electronic device plays an important role in executing various functions of said electronic device. Also the storage management is important for securing and keeping important data/media content in a reliable storage area.
  • Electronic devices are capable of storing data/media contents into various formats such as document files, media files, system files and many other data formats.
  • the electronic devices are generally configured to use various kind of data stored on at least one memory location associated with said electronic device, to perform various operations.
  • the basic as well as other supporting operations of an electronic device may depend upon different memory/storage units and/or memory locations associated with said electronic device, as said memory units and/or memory locations comprising the necessary data files to execute said operations. For instance, in many electronic devices the basic operation of booting up requires the loading of specific programs via BIOS from a special memory location. Also in one more instance the feature of uploading a media content on a social media platform via an electronic device requires the accessing of said media content from a specific memory location/memory unit of said electronic device. Therefore, there should be proper management of data storage in an electronic device
  • the memory location may be an internal memory location and/or an external memory location.
  • the memory location is further defined as an address of a memory unit/storage unit associated with an electronic device.
  • the storage unit further includes a storage area to store data/media content.
  • the internal memory location is categorised as the address of an internal memory of an electronic device.
  • the internal memory is the main memory unit of an electronic device as said internal memory is more reliable and secure for data storage.
  • the external memory location is the address of an extended/additional memory unit of an electronic device, for example any additional memory card used in an electronic device is an external memory.
  • a user can use multiple additional memory units to store the data/media files.
  • the external memory is not as much reliable and secure as compared to the internal memory. There are high chances of losing data stored on external memory as it is difficult to analyse the external memory each time when any data is uploaded on said external memory. Also there are many other factors which can affect the health of a memory unit, for instance lifetime of said memory unit, writing cycles and the other similar factors.
  • the said media contents may be generated by the system and/or the media contents may be any third party media contents.
  • the system generated media contents may include the user generated media contents and/or the other important system data files.
  • the third party media contents may include the media contents downloaded/received from any source other than the system and/or the user itself.
  • the system/internal memory plays an important role in the functioning of an electronic device, as the system requires some additional space/memory to run various system operations. Therefore, the consumption of system storage by storing the unnecessary files/non-important data files into the system memory, impacts the performance of the system/electronic device.
  • a number of solutions are provided time to time to provide a better storage management of the user data/media contents in an electronic device, but said existing solutions are restricted to providing the storage management merely on the basis of internal and external storage concept.
  • the existing solutions fails to provide the storage management of media contents on the basis of importance level of said media contents.
  • some of the existing solutions are based on semantic analysis of conversations to decide the context in which a media item is received/sent/used, and storage location of the media content is subsequently decided based on the derived context, which can lead to an unbalanced distribution of said media contents. Also, in many scenarios, there are no context associated with the media content especially when the device is downloading said contents without any user intervention and no conversation can be associated at that point of time.
  • an object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for storage management of media content on an electronic device and an electronic device capable of executing the method. It is another object of the present disclosure to provide a method and an electronic device to allow users to differentiate categories among the media contents and map them to a particular storage location. It is also an object of the present disclosure to filter less important media content from more important media content within a same application and storing them on different locations. It is yet another object of the present disclosure to balance media contents between internal and external storage location without continuous user intervention. One more object of the present disclosure is to provide additional actions for the important category of contents. Also one another object of the present disclosure is to use storage unit health to decide operations to be performed and to reduce the risk of losing data due to overuse of external storage unit.
  • the present disclosure provides a method for storage management of media content on an electronic device and an electronic device capable of executing the method.
  • One aspect of the disclosure relates to a method of storage management of media content on an electronic device and an electronic device.
  • the method includes the following. Receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device. Determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content. Determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content. Determine a health of the storage location, where the health of the storage location at least includes a performance level of the storage location. Perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
  • the electronic device includes a processor and a memory storing at least one computer program.
  • the at least one computer when executed, is operable with the processor to perform the following.
  • Determine a health of the storage location where the health of the storage location at least includes a performance level of the storage location.
  • the storage medium stores at least one computer program.
  • the at least one computer program when executed, is operable with a processor of an electronic device to perform the following.
  • Determine a health of the storage location where the health of the storage location at least includes a performance level of the storage location.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of an electronic device in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary method flow diagram, depicting method for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary sequence flow diagram, for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the disclosure provides a method for storage management of media content on an electronic device. More specifically, the disclosure provides media content management between multiple storage options based on the health index of storage device/electronic device and access history of contents.
  • the present disclosure allows seamless management of contents without explicit user intervention for better memory performance.
  • the present disclosure allows the user to define category of media contents in electronic device and combine it with expected lifetime of secure digital card to decide the management policy for the content.
  • an electronic device may be any electrical, electronic, electromechanical and computing device or equipment, associated with at least one memory unit/memory location.
  • the electronic device may include, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, smart phone, laptop, a general-purpose computer, desktop, personal digital assistant, tablet computer, wearable device or any other computing device which is capable of storing various kind of data.
  • the electronic device contains at least one input means configured to receive an input from a user, a processing unit, a storage/memory unit and the other modules/units of said electronic device.
  • a computer-readable medium includes read-only memory ( “ROM” ) , random access memory ( “RAM” ) , magnetic disk storage media, optical storage media, flash memory devices or other types of machine-accessible storage media.
  • a “processing unit” or “processor” includes one or more processors, where a processor refers to any logic circuitry for processing instructions.
  • a processor may be a general-purpose processor, a special purpose processor, a conventional processor, a digital signal processor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in association with a digital signal processor (DSP) core, a controller, a microcontroller, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Field Programmable Gate Array circuits, any other type of integrated circuits, etc.
  • the processor may perform signal coding data processing, input/output processing, and/or any other functionality that enables the working of the system according to the present disclosure. More specifically, the processor or processing unit is a hardware processor.
  • media content refers to any media such as images, videos, gifs, documents such as text files, presentations, etc.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of an electronic device 100, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the electronic device 100 includes at least one memory 102, at least one input/output interface 104, at least one processor 112, at least one categorization unit 106, at least one storage mapping unit 108, and at least one health determining unit 110.
  • the at least one categorization unit 106, the at least one storage mapping unit 108, and the at least one health determining unit 110 are software modules stored in the memory 102 and can be invoked by the at least one processor 112 to perform the method described in the disclosure. All of these components/units are connected to each other, however, the same has not been shown in Fig. 1 for the sake of clarity.
  • the memory 102 of the present disclosure refers to a machine or computer-readable medium including any mechanism for storing information in a form readable by a computer or similar machine.
  • a computer-readable medium includes read-only memory ( “ROM” ) , random access memory ( “RAM” ) , magnetic disk storage media, optical storage media, flash memory devices or other types of machine-accessible storage media.
  • the memory 102 of the present disclosure is configured to store a location preference associated with the electronic device, where the location preference includes one of a primary storage location preference and a secondary storage location preference.
  • the location preference is associated with a storage location, wherein the storage location comprises a primary storage location and a secondary storage location.
  • the primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of an internal storage of the electronic device and an external storage.
  • the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device
  • the secondary storage location is the external storage.
  • the primary storage location is the external storage
  • the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
  • the user is provided an option to select either of the storage locations i.e. the internal storage of the electronic device and the external storage, as the primary storage location.
  • the system is configured to automatically treat the other storage as the secondary storage location. Also, by default, the present disclosure considers the internal storage as the primary storage location.
  • the input/output interface 104 of the present disclosure is connected to the processor 112 and the memory 102.
  • the input/output interface 104 provides a method of transferring information between the processor 112 and any other peripheral device.
  • the input/output interface 104 is a hardware component between the system bus and the peripherals.
  • the input/output interface 104 is configured to receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device 100, and the received request is further received by the processor 104 for further processing.
  • the storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action. Also, the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content. In an instance the request may be received via a user or it may be a system generated request based on the various parameters associated with the media content.
  • the categorization unit 106 of the present disclosure is stored in the memory 102.
  • the categorization unit 106 is configured to determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content.
  • the categorization of media contents further helps to assign proper storage location to the media contents.
  • the category of media content is one of a primary content and a secondary content.
  • the primary category refers to the contents which are more important and needs better handling compared to the secondary category contents.
  • the content type is one of a system generated content and a system received content.
  • the system generated contents are created by user/system and can be used as a source of input for other applications. For example, images generated by camera application can be used as input for social media platforms, where a copy of the original image is made before sending to the server.
  • the user is also provided an option for categorizing the system generated contents as primary category.
  • the non-system generated contents can fall into primary category, if the user is involved in generating the content, such as capturing picture from a non-system application.
  • the user is also provided an option to select media contents which are generated by non-system applications using resources of system and requires user input, as a primary content.
  • system received content is any content that is not generated by the electronic device or with user intervention, but received at the electronic device.
  • the system received content may include images or any other media content received from another device via a social media application, files downloaded into the electronic device from third party servers, etc.
  • the access history of the media content includes at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content.
  • the disclosure encompasses that the category of a secondary content can be changed to primary content if the content is frequently being accessed by the user (for example, in that scenario, the content might be acting as a source. ) Also, the disclosure encompasses that if the number of access count of the secondary content increases beyond a pre-set threshold or the number of applications accessing the content over a period of time reaches a pre-defined limit, the category of the content is changed from secondary to primary category.
  • the storage mapping unit 108 is stored in the memory 102.
  • the storage mapping unit 108 is configured to determine a storage location for the media content based on the location preference and the determined category of media content.
  • the storage location includes the primary storage location and the secondary storage location. Further the primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of the internal storage of the electronic device and the external storage. In an implementation, the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is the external storage. In another implementation, the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device. In an instance if the media content is categorized as a primary content and the location preference is the primary storage location preference, the storage mapping unit 108 can determine the storage location for the media content on the basis of the primary content category and the primary storage location preference.
  • the health determining unit 110 of the present disclosure is configured to determine a health of the storage location. Once the storage category and the storage location of the media content is defined, the health determining unit 110 checks the performance level of the storage location and also determines the chances of data loss. For instance, the storage locations can be used for a long time by users and as different storage locations may have different lifetimes, the health of the storage location may be impacted. For instance, to determine the health of the storage location, the health determining unit 110 may determine the writing cycles available for said storage locations, the accessing speed of media contents over a period of time, etc. This can then be used to predict a decline in performance and in turn expectation of a risk of data loss, if it reaches a threshold. In an instance, the write cycles of the storage location may be determined using specific API’s of the storage location and expected write cycles of the storage location may be retrieved from a server storing the expected life cycles of different storage media provided by one or more vendors.
  • the processor 112 is configured to perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
  • the storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action.
  • the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content.
  • the additional action may include providing the user an option to move the primary content to the recycle bin instead of permanent deletion.
  • processor 112 is also configured to encrypt the media content prior to performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device.
  • an exemplary method flow diagram 200 depicting method for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. As shown in Fig. 2, the method begins at block 202.
  • the method encompasses receiving a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device.
  • the storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action.
  • the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content. For example, a user provides an input on a user interface of the electronic device to open a camera application at an electronic device, clicks an image using said application and saves it on the electronic device.
  • the method further at block 204 includes determining a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content, where the category of media content is one of a primary content and a secondary content.
  • the primary content category refers to the contents which are more important and needs better handling compared to the secondary contents category.
  • the content type/media content type is one of a system generated content and a user generated content.
  • the system generated contents are created by user/system and can further be used as a source of input for other platforms such as for social media platforms.
  • voice notes generated by a system application can be used as an input for social media platforms, where a copy of the original voice note is made before sending to the server.
  • the user is also provided an option for categorizing the system generated contents as primary content category.
  • the non-system generated contents can fall into primary content category, if the user is involved in generating said content, such as capturing a picture from a non-system application.
  • the user is also provided an option to select media contents which are generated by non-system applications using resources of system and user input, as a primary content.
  • the access history of the media content includes at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content.
  • the category of the secondary content can be change to the primary content if the content is frequently being accessed by the user because in that scenario, the content might be acting as a source. Also, if the number of access count of the secondary content increases beyond a threshold or the number of applications accessing the content over a period of time reaches a limit, the category of the secondary content may be changed from secondary to primary category.
  • the category of the content i.e. the saved image in this example. Decide that it is a system generated content (since it is generated by using system resources such as the camera application in this case) . Determine the access history of the image which is nil at this stage. Based on these two analysis, categorize this content in the primary content category.
  • the method at block 206 encompasses determining a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content.
  • the location preference includes one of a primary storage location preference and a secondary storage location preference.
  • the location preference is further associated with a storage location, where the storage location includes a primary storage location and a secondary storage location.
  • the primary storage location preference corresponds to the primary storage location
  • the secondary storage location preference corresponds to the secondary storage location.
  • the primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of an internal storage of the electronic device and an external storage.
  • the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device
  • the secondary storage location is the external storage.
  • the primary storage location is the external storage
  • the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
  • the present disclosure provides the user an option to select either of the storage locations i.e. the internal storage of the electronic device and the external storage, as the primary storage location.
  • the present disclosure encompasses automatically considering the other storage location as the secondary storage location. Also, by default, the present disclosure considers the internal storage as the primary storage location. For instance, the user is provided an option to select a location preference at a user interface of the electronic device and the user selects the external storage as the primary location and the internal storage as the secondary location. This location preference is then stored in the memory 102.
  • the media content is categorized as the secondary content and the location preference is the secondary storage location preference, determine the storage location for the media content on the basis of the secondary content category and the secondary storage location preference.
  • the storage location of the image i.e. the external storage in this case.
  • the method further at block 208 proceeds to determine a health of the storage location.
  • the storage category and the storage location of the media content are defined, check the performance level of the storage location and also determine the chances of data loss associated with the storage location.
  • the storage locations can be used for a long time by users and as different storage locations may have different lifetimes, the health of the storage location may be impacted.
  • determine the health of the storage location determine the writing cycles available for the storage locations, the accessing speed of media contents over a period of time, etc. This can then be used to predict a decline in performance and in turn expectation of a risk of data loss, if it reaches a threshold.
  • the write cycles of a storage location may be determined using specific API’s of the storage location and expected write cycles of the storage location may be retrieved from a server storing the expected life cycles of different storage media provided by one or more vendors.
  • the performance level of the external storage may be a poor performance level.
  • the method at block 210 includes performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
  • the storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action.
  • the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content.
  • the additional action may include providing the user an option to move the primary content to the recycle bin instead of permanent deletion.
  • the system may perform the storage action, i.e. store the image in the internal storage.
  • the disclosure encompasses providing a prompt on the user interface of the electronic device indicating that the image is being stored on internal storage since the performance of the external storage is determined to be poor.
  • the method also encompasses encrypting the media content prior to performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device.
  • the image may be encrypted before it is stored in the internal storage of the electronic device.
  • the method terminates after performing storage management of media content on the electronic device.
  • FIG. 3 an exemplary sequence flow diagram 300 for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is shown.
  • the process begins at block 302.
  • the process includes receiving a media content read/write/delete request.
  • the request is received to perform a storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device.
  • the process further at block 304 encompasses defining of a category of the content as Primary/Secondary based on user selected preference.
  • the determination is based on a content type and an access history of the media content.
  • the primary category may refer to the contents which are more important and needs better handling compared to the secondary category contents.
  • the content type is one of a system generated content and a user generated content.
  • the access history of the media content includes at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content.
  • the process at block 306 includes determining a storage location selected by the user for the content category.
  • the storage location includes a primary storage location and a secondary storage location.
  • the primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of an internal storage of the electronic device and an external storage.
  • the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device
  • the secondary storage location is the external storage.
  • the primary storage location is the external storage
  • the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
  • the process at block 308 encompasses determining of the health of the selected storage location.
  • the process leads to determining whether the health of the selected storage location is suitable or not, at block 308.
  • the block 308 further leads to block 310, if the determined health of the selected storage location is not suitable.
  • the process leads to prompting the user for external storage device condition risk and to use the internal storage for storing content.
  • the indication of risk may also be provided for the internal storage device along with an additional indication to use the external storage for storing content.
  • the process then leads to block 312.
  • the process uses the user specified storage location to store the content.
  • the process encompasses performing any specific operation defined by the user for actions on the selected category. Thereafter, the process further terminates after performing storage management of media content on the electronic device.
  • the disclosure enables a user to save a location preference of his/her choice in the system.
  • Each user may have a different location preference, for instance while one user may wish to store important/primary content on the device’s internal memory, another user may prefer to store the primary content in the external storage.
  • the system of storage management of the present disclosure is flexible in this aspect that it allows the user to provide his/her own preference of storage locations to be used, as opposed to the existing solutions that follow a ‘one preference fits all’a pproach wherein the preferences are pre-decided by the system itself.
  • the present disclosure enables that the content be categorized into primary or secondary content which defines the level of importance of the content, and then be stored in accordance with such category or level of importance. While existing solutions provide an approach of dividing storage preferences by applications, for instance, anything generated by the social media application be stored in the external storage. On the other hand, the present disclosure enables that the storage location be decided on a per content basis. For instance, even content that is generated using a social media application but with user intervention may be considered as primary content. Similarly, in another example, a content received from a third-party server may also be categorized as a primary content based on the access history of the content, such as if it is accessed multiple times in a day indicating that it is a relevant or important content.
  • the disclosure encompasses checking the health of the storage unit before storing any content in such storage.
  • the disclosure not only takes into account the content type and the access history but also the health of the storage as such before storing the content in the storage location.

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A method for storage management of media content on an electronic device, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. Receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device. Determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content. Determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content. Determine a health of the storage location. Further, perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.

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METHOD FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENT OF MEDIA CONTENT ON ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM TECHNICAL FIELD
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of storage management, and more particularly to a system for storage management of media content on an electronic device, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
BACKGROUND
This section is intended to provide information relating to field of the disclosure and thus any approach or functionality described below should not be assumed to be qualified as related art merely by its inclusion in this section.
Storage management in an electronic device plays an important role in executing various functions of said electronic device. Also the storage management is important for securing and keeping important data/media content in a reliable storage area. Electronic devices are capable of storing data/media contents into various formats such as document files, media files, system files and many other data formats. The electronic devices are generally configured to use various kind of data stored on at least one memory location associated with said electronic device, to perform various operations. The basic as well as other supporting operations of an electronic device may depend upon different memory/storage units and/or memory locations associated with said electronic device, as said memory units and/or memory locations comprising the necessary data files to execute said operations. For instance, in many electronic devices the basic operation of booting up requires the loading of specific programs via BIOS from a special memory location. Also in one more instance the feature of uploading a media content on a social media platform via an electronic device requires the accessing of said media content from a specific memory location/memory unit of said electronic device. Therefore, there should be proper management of data storage in an electronic device.
Furthermore, the memory location may be an internal memory location and/or an external memory location. Also the memory location is further defined as an address of a memory unit/storage unit associated with an electronic device. The storage unit further includes a storage area to store data/media content. In general the internal memory location is categorised as the address of an internal memory of an electronic device. The internal memory is the main memory unit of an electronic device as said internal memory is more reliable and secure for data storage.
Also, the external memory location is the address of an extended/additional memory unit of an electronic device, for example any additional memory card used in an electronic device is an external memory. A user can use multiple additional memory units to store the data/media files. The external memory is not as much reliable and secure as compared to the internal memory. There are high chances of losing data stored on external memory as it is difficult to analyse the external memory each time when any data is uploaded on said  external memory. Also there are many other factors which can affect the health of a memory unit, for instance lifetime of said memory unit, writing cycles and the other similar factors.
Furthermore, with the advancement and increase in the use of electronic devices, the rate of generation of data/media contents is also increased to a great extent. The said media contents may be generated by the system and/or the media contents may be any third party media contents. The system generated media contents may include the user generated media contents and/or the other important system data files. Also, the third party media contents may include the media contents downloaded/received from any source other than the system and/or the user itself.
This increase in the generation of the data/media contents further leads to the need of efficient and secure storage management of said media contents in an electronic device. However, the current storage management solutions are not able to provide an efficient and effective way of storage management of media files in an electronic device. In an instance, as per the current storage management scenario, if the user has initially opted an internal memory location to store data/media contents, then all data/media contents whether important or not, on the basis of said initially opted internal memory location, automatically gets stored on the internal memory of said electronic device. When less important data/media content is stored in the primary storage/internal storage of an electronic device, it leads to the decrease in the performance of said electronic device. The system/internal memory plays an important role in the functioning of an electronic device, as the system requires some additional space/memory to run various system operations. Therefore, the consumption of system storage by storing the unnecessary files/non-important data files into the system memory, impacts the performance of the system/electronic device.
Furthermore, there are also many instances, where the important media contents are stored on the external memory locations and due to various associated risks with external media locations there are chances that the user may lose such media contents.
A number of solutions are provided time to time to provide a better storage management of the user data/media contents in an electronic device, but said existing solutions are restricted to providing the storage management merely on the basis of internal and external storage concept. The existing solutions fails to provide the storage management of media contents on the basis of importance level of said media contents.
Furthermore, some of the existing solutions are based on semantic analysis of conversations to decide the context in which a media item is received/sent/used, and storage location of the media content is subsequently decided based on the derived context, which can lead to an unbalanced distribution of said media contents. Also, in many scenarios, there are no context associated with the media content especially when the device is downloading said contents without any user intervention and no conversation can be associated at that point of time.
Also, if the user is using any external storage which is already being used for a long time, there is a possibility that some of the memory blocks might be unusable and may lead to loss of contents if used. The existing systems do not consider such issues while deciding the storage location for contents.
In view of these and other existing limitations, there arises an imperative need to provide a solution to  overcome the limitations of prior existing solutions and to provide a more efficient method and system for storage management of media content on an electronic device.
SUMMARY
This section is provided to introduce certain objects and aspects of the present disclosure in a simplified form that are further described below in the detailed description. This summary is not intended to identify the key features or the scope of the claimed subject matter.
In order to overcome at least a few problems associated with the known solutions as provided in the previous section, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for storage management of media content on an electronic device and an electronic device capable of executing the method. It is another object of the present disclosure to provide a method and an electronic device to allow users to differentiate categories among the media contents and map them to a particular storage location. It is also an object of the present disclosure to filter less important media content from more important media content within a same application and storing them on different locations. It is yet another object of the present disclosure to balance media contents between internal and external storage location without continuous user intervention. One more object of the present disclosure is to provide additional actions for the important category of contents. Also one another object of the present disclosure is to use storage unit health to decide operations to be performed and to reduce the risk of losing data due to overuse of external storage unit.
In order to achieve the afore-mentioned objectives, the present disclosure provides a method for storage management of media content on an electronic device and an electronic device capable of executing the method. One aspect of the disclosure relates to a method of storage management of media content on an electronic device and an electronic device. The method includes the following. Receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device. Determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content. Determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content. Determine a health of the storage location, where the health of the storage location at least includes a performance level of the storage location. Perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
Further, another aspect of the disclosure relates to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor and a memory storing at least one computer program. The at least one computer, when executed, is operable with the processor to perform the following. Receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device. Determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content. Determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content. Determine a health of the storage location, where the health of the storage location at least includes a performance level of the storage location. Perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
Further, another aspect of the disclosure relates to a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium. The storage medium stores at least one computer program. The at least one computer program, when executed, is operable with a processor of an electronic device to perform the following. Receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device. Determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content. Determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content. Determine a health of the storage location, where the health of the storage location at least includes a performance level of the storage location. Perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein, and constitute a part of this disclosure, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the disclosed methods and systems in which like reference numerals refer to the same parts throughout the different drawings. Components in the drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present disclosure. Some drawings may indicate the components using block diagrams and may not represent the internal circuitry of each component. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that disclosure of such drawings includes disclosure of electrical components, electronic components or circuitry commonly used to implement such components.
FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of an electronic device in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary method flow diagram, depicting method for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary sequence flow diagram, for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
The foregoing shall be more apparent from the following more detailed description of the disclosure.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, various specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the present disclosure. It will be apparent, however, that embodiments of the present disclosure may be practiced without these specific details. Several features described hereafter can each be used independently of one another or with any combination of other features. An individual feature may not address any of the problems discussed above or might address only some of the problems discussed above. Some of the problems discussed above might not be fully addressed by any of the features described herein.
The disclosure provides a method for storage management of media content on an electronic device. More specifically, the disclosure provides media content management between multiple storage options based on the health index of storage device/electronic device and access history of contents. The present disclosure allows seamless management of contents without explicit user intervention for better memory performance. The  present disclosure allows the user to define category of media contents in electronic device and combine it with expected lifetime of secure digital card to decide the management policy for the content.
As used herein, “an electronic device” , may be any electrical, electronic, electromechanical and computing device or equipment, associated with at least one memory unit/memory location. The electronic device may include, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, smart phone, laptop, a general-purpose computer, desktop, personal digital assistant, tablet computer, wearable device or any other computing device which is capable of storing various kind of data. The electronic device contains at least one input means configured to receive an input from a user, a processing unit, a storage/memory unit and the other modules/units of said electronic device.
As used herein, “memory unit” or “internal/external memory” or “storage unit” or “internal/external storage” , refers to a machine or computer-readable medium including any mechanism for storing information in a form readable by a computer or similar machine. For example, a computer-readable medium includes read-only memory ( “ROM” ) , random access memory ( “RAM” ) , magnetic disk storage media, optical storage media, flash memory devices or other types of machine-accessible storage media.
As used herein, a “processing unit” or “processor” includes one or more processors, where a processor refers to any logic circuitry for processing instructions. A processor may be a general-purpose processor, a special purpose processor, a conventional processor, a digital signal processor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in association with a digital signal processor (DSP) core, a controller, a microcontroller, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Field Programmable Gate Array circuits, any other type of integrated circuits, etc. The processor may perform signal coding data processing, input/output processing, and/or any other functionality that enables the working of the system according to the present disclosure. More specifically, the processor or processing unit is a hardware processor.
As used herein, “media content” refers to any media such as images, videos, gifs, documents such as text files, presentations, etc.
The disclosure is further explained in detail below with reference now to the diagrams.
FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of an electronic device 100, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Fig. 1, the electronic device 100 includes at least one memory 102, at least one input/output interface 104, at least one processor 112, at least one categorization unit 106, at least one storage mapping unit 108, and at least one health determining unit 110. The at least one categorization unit 106, the at least one storage mapping unit 108, and the at least one health determining unit 110 are software modules stored in the memory 102 and can be invoked by the at least one processor 112 to perform the method described in the disclosure. All of these components/units are connected to each other, however, the same has not been shown in Fig. 1 for the sake of clarity. Also, only one memory 102, input/output interface 104, categorization unit 106, storage mapping unit 108, health determining unit110 and processor 112 are shown in the present disclosure, however, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the disclosure encompasses multiple such units as may be necessary to implement the features of the disclosure.
The memory 102 of the present disclosure refers to a machine or computer-readable medium including  any mechanism for storing information in a form readable by a computer or similar machine. For example, a computer-readable medium includes read-only memory ( “ROM” ) , random access memory ( “RAM” ) , magnetic disk storage media, optical storage media, flash memory devices or other types of machine-accessible storage media.
The memory 102 of the present disclosure is configured to store a location preference associated with the electronic device, where the location preference includes one of a primary storage location preference and a secondary storage location preference.
Further, the location preference is associated with a storage location, wherein the storage location comprises a primary storage location and a secondary storage location. The primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of an internal storage of the electronic device and an external storage. In an implementation, the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is the external storage. In another implementation, the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
In an instance, the user is provided an option to select either of the storage locations i.e. the internal storage of the electronic device and the external storage, as the primary storage location. The system is configured to automatically treat the other storage as the secondary storage location. Also, by default, the present disclosure considers the internal storage as the primary storage location.
The input/output interface 104 of the present disclosure is connected to the processor 112 and the memory 102. The input/output interface 104 provides a method of transferring information between the processor 112 and any other peripheral device. The input/output interface 104 is a hardware component between the system bus and the peripherals. The input/output interface 104 is configured to receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device 100, and the received request is further received by the processor 104 for further processing. The storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action. Also, the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content. In an instance the request may be received via a user or it may be a system generated request based on the various parameters associated with the media content.
The categorization unit 106 of the present disclosure is stored in the memory 102. The categorization unit 106 is configured to determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content. The categorization of media contents further helps to assign proper storage location to the media contents.
Further the category of media content is one of a primary content and a secondary content. The primary category refers to the contents which are more important and needs better handling compared to the secondary category contents.
Also, the content type is one of a system generated content and a system received content. The system generated contents are created by user/system and can be used as a source of input for other applications. For example, images generated by camera application can be used as input for social media platforms, where a  copy of the original image is made before sending to the server. Furthermore, the user is also provided an option for categorizing the system generated contents as primary category. Also, the non-system generated contents can fall into primary category, if the user is involved in generating the content, such as capturing picture from a non-system application. The user is also provided an option to select media contents which are generated by non-system applications using resources of system and requires user input, as a primary content.
Further, the system received content is any content that is not generated by the electronic device or with user intervention, but received at the electronic device. For instance, the system received content may include images or any other media content received from another device via a social media application, files downloaded into the electronic device from third party servers, etc.
Furthermore, the access history of the media content includes at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content. Also, the disclosure encompasses that the category of a secondary content can be changed to primary content if the content is frequently being accessed by the user (for example, in that scenario, the content might be acting as a source. ) Also, the disclosure encompasses that if the number of access count of the secondary content increases beyond a pre-set threshold or the number of applications accessing the content over a period of time reaches a pre-defined limit, the category of the content is changed from secondary to primary category.
The storage mapping unit 108 is stored in the memory 102. The storage mapping unit 108 is configured to determine a storage location for the media content based on the location preference and the determined category of media content. The storage location includes the primary storage location and the secondary storage location. Further the primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of the internal storage of the electronic device and the external storage. In an implementation, the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is the external storage. In another implementation, the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device. In an instance if the media content is categorized as a primary content and the location preference is the primary storage location preference, the storage mapping unit 108 can determine the storage location for the media content on the basis of the primary content category and the primary storage location preference.
The health determining unit 110 of the present disclosure is configured to determine a health of the storage location. Once the storage category and the storage location of the media content is defined, the health determining unit 110 checks the performance level of the storage location and also determines the chances of data loss. For instance, the storage locations can be used for a long time by users and as different storage locations may have different lifetimes, the health of the storage location may be impacted. For instance, to determine the health of the storage location, the health determining unit 110 may determine the writing cycles available for said storage locations, the accessing speed of media contents over a period of time, etc. This can then be used to predict a decline in performance and in turn expectation of a risk of data loss, if it reaches a threshold. In an instance, the write cycles of the storage location may be determined using specific API’s of the storage location and expected write cycles of the storage location may be retrieved from a server storing the  expected life cycles of different storage media provided by one or more vendors.
The processor 112 is configured to perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health. The storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action. Also, the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content. In an instance the additional action may include providing the user an option to move the primary content to the recycle bin instead of permanent deletion.
Further, the processor 112 is also configured to encrypt the media content prior to performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device.
As shown in Fig. 2, an exemplary method flow diagram 200, depicting method for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. As shown in Fig. 2, the method begins at block 202.
At block 202, the method encompasses receiving a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device. The storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action. Also, the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content. For example, a user provides an input on a user interface of the electronic device to open a camera application at an electronic device, clicks an image using said application and saves it on the electronic device.
The method further at block 204 includes determining a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content, where the category of media content is one of a primary content and a secondary content. The primary content category refers to the contents which are more important and needs better handling compared to the secondary contents category.
Also, the content type/media content type is one of a system generated content and a user generated content. The system generated contents are created by user/system and can further be used as a source of input for other platforms such as for social media platforms. For example, voice notes generated by a system application can be used as an input for social media platforms, where a copy of the original voice note is made before sending to the server. Furthermore, the user is also provided an option for categorizing the system generated contents as primary content category. Also, the non-system generated contents can fall into primary content category, if the user is involved in generating said content, such as capturing a picture from a non-system application. The user is also provided an option to select media contents which are generated by non-system applications using resources of system and user input, as a primary content.
Further, the access history of the media content includes at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content. Also, the category of the secondary content can be change to the primary content if the content is frequently being accessed by the user because in that scenario, the content might be acting as a source. Also, if the number of access count of the secondary content increases beyond a threshold or the number of applications accessing the content over a period of time reaches a limit, the category of the secondary content may be  changed from secondary to primary category.
Continuing the above example, at block 204, decide the category of the content, i.e. the saved image in this example. Decide that it is a system generated content (since it is generated by using system resources such as the camera application in this case) . Determine the access history of the image which is nil at this stage. Based on these two analysis, categorize this content in the primary content category.
Furthermore, the method at block 206 encompasses determining a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content.
The location preference includes one of a primary storage location preference and a secondary storage location preference. The location preference is further associated with a storage location, where the storage location includes a primary storage location and a secondary storage location. The primary storage location preference corresponds to the primary storage location, and the secondary storage location preference corresponds to the secondary storage location. The primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of an internal storage of the electronic device and an external storage. In an implementation, the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is the external storage. In another implementation, the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device. The present disclosure provides the user an option to select either of the storage locations i.e. the internal storage of the electronic device and the external storage, as the primary storage location. The present disclosure encompasses automatically considering the other storage location as the secondary storage location. Also, by default, the present disclosure considers the internal storage as the primary storage location. For instance, the user is provided an option to select a location preference at a user interface of the electronic device and the user selects the external storage as the primary location and the internal storage as the secondary location. This location preference is then stored in the memory 102.
In an instance if the media content is categorized as the secondary content and the location preference is the secondary storage location preference, determine the storage location for the media content on the basis of the secondary content category and the secondary storage location preference.
In the above example, since the image has been categorized in the primary category, and the location preference provided by the user indicates that the primary content is stored on the external storage, determine the storage location of the image, i.e. the external storage in this case.
The method further at block 208 proceeds to determine a health of the storage location. Once the storage category and the storage location of the media content are defined, check the performance level of the storage location and also determine the chances of data loss associated with the storage location. For instance, the storage locations can be used for a long time by users and as different storage locations may have different lifetimes, the health of the storage location may be impacted. For instance, to determine the health of the storage location, determine the writing cycles available for the storage locations, the accessing speed of media contents over a period of time, etc. This can then be used to predict a decline in performance and in turn  expectation of a risk of data loss, if it reaches a threshold. In an instance, the write cycles of a storage location may be determined using specific API’s of the storage location and expected write cycles of the storage location may be retrieved from a server storing the expected life cycles of different storage media provided by one or more vendors. In the above example, the performance level of the external storage may be a poor performance level.
Thereafter the method at block 210 includes performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health.
The storage action further includes at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action. Also, the storage action may be an additional action that is to be performed while dealing with specific operations with specific category content. In an instance the additional action may include providing the user an option to move the primary content to the recycle bin instead of permanent deletion.
In the above example, since the health of the external storage is determined to be low, the system may perform the storage action, i.e. store the image in the internal storage. The disclosure encompasses providing a prompt on the user interface of the electronic device indicating that the image is being stored on internal storage since the performance of the external storage is determined to be poor.
Further, in an implementation, the method also encompasses encrypting the media content prior to performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device. For example, the image may be encrypted before it is stored in the internal storage of the electronic device.
Thereafter the method terminates after performing storage management of media content on the electronic device.
Referring to Fig. 3, an exemplary sequence flow diagram 300 for storage management of media content on an electronic device, in accordance with exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is shown.
As shown in Fig. 3, the process begins at block 302. At block 302, the process includes receiving a media content read/write/delete request. The request is received to perform a storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device.
Thereafter the process further at block 304 encompasses defining of a category of the content as Primary/Secondary based on user selected preference. The determination is based on a content type and an access history of the media content. The primary category may refer to the contents which are more important and needs better handling compared to the secondary category contents. Also, the content type is one of a system generated content and a user generated content. The access history of the media content includes at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content.
Further the process at block 306 includes determining a storage location selected by the user for the content category. The storage location includes a primary storage location and a secondary storage location. Also, the primary storage location and the secondary storage location is one of an internal storage of the electronic device and an external storage. In an implementation, the primary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is the external storage. In another  implementation, the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
Thereafter the process at block 308 encompasses determining of the health of the selected storage location. The process leads to determining whether the health of the selected storage location is suitable or not, at block 308.
Next, the block 308 further leads to block 310, if the determined health of the selected storage location is not suitable. At block 310 the process leads to prompting the user for external storage device condition risk and to use the internal storage for storing content. In an instance the indication of risk may also be provided for the internal storage device along with an additional indication to use the external storage for storing content.
Also, if at block 308, the determined health of the selected storage location is suitable, the process then leads to block 312. At block 312 the process uses the user specified storage location to store the content.
Further the process at block 314, the process encompasses performing any specific operation defined by the user for actions on the selected category. Thereafter, the process further terminates after performing storage management of media content on the electronic device.
As is evident from the above description, the disclosure enables a user to save a location preference of his/her choice in the system. Each user may have a different location preference, for instance while one user may wish to store important/primary content on the device’s internal memory, another user may prefer to store the primary content in the external storage. Thus, the system of storage management of the present disclosure is flexible in this aspect that it allows the user to provide his/her own preference of storage locations to be used, as opposed to the existing solutions that follow a ‘one preference fits all’a pproach wherein the preferences are pre-decided by the system itself.
Further, the present disclosure enables that the content be categorized into primary or secondary content which defines the level of importance of the content, and then be stored in accordance with such category or level of importance. While existing solutions provide an approach of dividing storage preferences by applications, for instance, anything generated by the social media application be stored in the external storage. On the other hand, the present disclosure enables that the storage location be decided on a per content basis. For instance, even content that is generated using a social media application but with user intervention may be considered as primary content. Similarly, in another example, a content received from a third-party server may also be categorized as a primary content based on the access history of the content, such as if it is accessed multiple times in a day indicating that it is a relevant or important content.
Yet another advantage of the present disclosure is that the disclosure encompasses checking the health of the storage unit before storing any content in such storage. Thus, the disclosure not only takes into account the content type and the access history but also the health of the storage as such before storing the content in the storage location.
These and other advantages as are apparent from the above disclosure provide a significant technical advancement and improvement over the existing technology for storage management.
While considerable emphasis has been placed herein on the disclosed embodiments, it will be appreciated  that many embodiments can be made and that many changes can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles of the present disclosure. These and other changes in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art, whereby it is to be understood that the foregoing descriptive matter to be implemented is illustrative and non-limiting.

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  1. A method for storage management of media content on an electronic device, the method comprising:
    receiving a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device;
    determining a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content;
    determining a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content;
    determining a health of the storage location, wherein the health of the storage location at least comprises a performance level of the storage location; and
    performing the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health of the storage location.
  2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location preference comprises one of a primary storage location preference and a secondary storage location preference.
  3. The method of claim 2, wherein the primary storage location preference corresponds to a primary storage location, and the secondary storage location preference corresponds to a secondary storage location.
  4. The method of claim 3, wherein
    the primary storage location is an internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is an external storage; or
    the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
  5. The method of claim 4, wherein the storage location for the media content is the external storage, and performing the storage action associated with the media content based on the determined health of the storage location comprises:
    performing the storage action associated with the media content with the external storage when the determined health of the external storage satisfies a preset condition; and
    performing the storage action associated with the media content with the internal storage of the electronic device when the determined health of the external storage does not satisfy the preset condition.
  6. The method of claim 4, wherein the storage location for the media content is the internal storage of the electronic device, and performing the storage action associated with the media content based on the determined health of the storage location comprises:
    performing the storage action associated with the media content with the internal storage of the electronic device when the determined health of the internal storage of the electronic device satisfies a preset condition; and
    performing the storage action associated with the media content with the external storage when the determined health of the internal storage of the electronic device does not satisfy the preset condition.
  7. The method of claim 1, wherein the storage action comprises at least one of a read action, a modify action, a delete action and a save action.
  8. The method of claim 1, wherein the category of the media content is one of a primary content and a secondary content.
  9. The method of claim 1, wherein the content type is one of a system generated content and a system received content.
  10. The method of claim 1, wherein the access history of the media content comprises at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content.
  11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
    prior to performing the storage action associated with the media content:
    encrypting the media content.
  12. An electronic device comprising:
    a processor; and
    a memory configured to store at least one computer program;
    the at least one computer program, when executed, being operable with the processor to:
    receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device;
    determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content;
    determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content;
    determine a health of the storage location, wherein the health of the storage location at least comprises a performance level of the storage location; and
    perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health of the storage location.
  13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the location preference comprises one of a primary storage location preference and a secondary storage location preference.
  14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the primary storage location preference corresponds to a primary storage location, and the secondary storage location preference corresponds to a secondary storage location.
  15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein
    the primary storage location is an internal storage of the electronic device, and the secondary storage location is an external storage; or
    the primary storage location is the external storage, and the secondary storage location is the internal storage of the electronic device.
  16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the storage location for the media content is the external storage,  and the at least one computer program operable with the processor to perform the storage action associated with the media content based on the determined health of the storage location is operable to:
    perform the storage action associated with the media content with the external storage when the determined health of the external storage satisfies a preset condition; and
    perform the storage action associated with the media content with the internal storage of the electronic device when the determined health of the external storage does not satisfy the preset condition.
  17. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the storage location for the media content is the internal storage of the electronic device, and the at least one computer program operable with the processor to perform the storage action associated with the media content based on the determined health of the storage location is operable with the processor to:
    perform the storage action associated with the media content with the internal storage of the electronic device when the determined health of the internal storage of the electronic device satisfies a preset condition; and
    perform the storage action associated with the media content with the external storage when the determined health of the internal storage of the electronic device does not satisfy the preset condition.
  18. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the content type is one of a system generated content and a system received content.
  19. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the access history of the media content comprises at least one of a frequency of viewing the media content, a frequency of sharing of the media content and a frequency of modification of the media content.
  20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, being configured to store at least one computer program;
    the at least one computer program, when executed, being operable with a processor of an electronic device to:
    receive a request for performing a storage action associated with a media content on the electronic device;
    determine a category of the media content based on a content type and an access history of the media content;
    determine a storage location for the media content based on a location preference associated with the electronic device and the determined category of the media content;
    determine a health of the storage location, wherein the health of the storage location at least comprises a performance level of the storage location; and
    perform the storage action associated with the media content on the electronic device based on the determined health of the storage location.
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