Integrated Multimedia File Structure for Dispersion Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience in managing, storing, and accessing multimedia files due to their dispersed nature across various network addresses and storage locations, making it cumbersome to search and view specific types of multimedia files.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that organize multimedia files into an integrated file structure, including a file identifier data block, overall information data block, and index information data block, allowing for efficient storage, reading, and display by storing file description information, path information, and storage location, enabling direct access and sequential reading/display of files.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multimedia files are stored separately across various network addresses and storage locations, then each file can be stored in its original location, but it becomes cumbersome and inconvenient for users to search and view files of a certain type
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate multimedia files of the same type into a single integrated file. The integrated file structure combines file identifiers, path information, and storage location data for multiple files into one unified structure, allowing users to access and view files of a certain type from a single location rather than searching across dispersed storage locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated file acts as an intermediary between the user and the dispersed multimedia files. It contains metadata (file identifiers, path information, storage locations) that mediates access to the actual files, simplifying the user's search and viewing process while maintaining the original dispersed storage structure.
2Productivity
If users search for multimedia files one by one from dispersed storage locations, then each file can be accessed individually, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary organization of multimedia files by creating an integrated file structure that pre-arranges file identifiers, path information, and storage locations. This preliminary action allows users to directly access files of a certain type without having to search for them one by one, significantly reducing access time and improving efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If multimedia files are organized into an integrated file structure, then file management and access become simplified, but the integrated file structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated file structure is segmented into distinct components: file identifier data blocks, path information blocks, and storage location data blocks. Each segment serves a specific function, making the overall complex structure manageable and systematic. This segmentation allows the system to handle complexity internally while presenting simplicity to the user.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and an apparatus for storing, reading, and displaying a plurality of multimedia files are disclosed. The method for storing a plurality of multimedia files includes: obtaining file description information of each of the plurality of multimedia files to be stored, determining a file identifier according to the file description information of each multimedia file to be stored, and storing the file identifier to the file identifier data block (S101); obtaining a file type and path information of each multimedia file to be stored, and storing the path information of each multimedia file to a file information data block corresponding to the file type, and sequentially storing, according to the storage order of respective file information data blocks, a file type corresponding to each file information data block to the overall information data block (S102); determining storage location information of each file information data block, and storing the storage location information to an index information data block (S103); and combining the file identifier data block, the overall information data block, the at least one file information data block, and the index information data block into an integrated file (S104). The method stores a plurality of various multimedia files as an integrated file, which makes it convenient for a user to view the files.