Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Bragdon, Reginald G. (Department: 2189)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C711S112000, C711S170000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07136884
ABSTRACT:
A file management method for reducing a seek operation to a minimum even when a UDF file system is used is provided. The file management method has file management information for managing contiguous blocks on a disc as an extent and for grouping the extent as a file and managing the file, and includes the steps of: when creating a new directory on the disc, reserving as a reserved area for recording file management information on the file a file or a data area in the directory; and reserving a directory block having a predetermined size in the reserved area for recording a file entry of the directory and a file identifier descriptor of the directory.
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Hino Yasumori
Ito Masanori
Mitsuda Makoto
Nakamura Tadashi
Shimotashiro Masafumi
Bragdon Reginald G.
Hamre Schumann Mueller & Larson P.C.
Namazi Mehdi
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