File Management Interface for Quick Path Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies in managing files on terminals, as they often need to manually search full disks to locate downloaded or transferred files, which is time-consuming and reduces file management efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that display an interface for file management, allowing terminals to quickly locate the storage path of received files by extracting related information, including file and application feature information, to provide quick management controls directly on the interface, reducing the need for manual searching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If full-disk searching is performed to locate files, then file location can be found, but time consumption increases and management efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal performs preliminary actions by automatically recording and storing the storage path information of files when they are downloaded or received through applications. This pre-stored path information is then used for quick retrieval, eliminating the need for full-disk searching and significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining accurate file location.
2Ease of operation
If manual full-disk searching is performed, then files can be located, but file management efficiency is greatly reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary recording of file storage paths automatically when files are received or downloaded. This pre-established path information enables users to access files directly through application interfaces without manual searching, greatly simplifying operations and significantly improving file management efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the file management system with stored path information) that mediates between the user and the file storage location. Instead of users directly performing full-disk searches, the intermediary system provides quick access to file paths, making operations easier and improving overall efficiency.
3Reliability
If full-disk searching is used to find files, then all files can be located, but the process is tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal performs preliminary recording of file storage paths automatically when files are downloaded or received through applications. This pre-stored path information enables direct access to files without tedious full-disk searching, maintaining reliability for files managed through applications while dramatically improving ease of operation.
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AI summary
A file management method and an apparatus, related to the field of communications technologies, can trigger, on an interface of an application, searching and management of a file displayed on the interface, to improve file management efficiency in a terminal. The method includes: displaying an interface of the first application; storing a target file received through the first application; extracting related information of the target file, where the related information of the target file includes file feature information, and the file feature information includes a name of the target file; searching for a storage path of the target file in storage space of the terminal based on the related information of the target file; and displaying a control used for performing file management on the target file if the storage path of the target file is successfully found.