METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CREATING VIRTUAL DIRECTORY Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G06F17/30 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: in method of creating a virtual directory, viewing the files of the specified type in the storage area is performed. The information about the files attributes is extracted, containing the previous names, playback addresses and the information about the episodes. A virtual directory is created according to the information about the attributes by means of classifying the information. When only one piece of information about the attributes is present in the classification, the information about the attributes is defined as a node in the first level catalogue of the virtual directory. Wherein the node contains the name and the address of the file playback. When several portions of the information about the attributes, containing information about an episode, is present in the classification, a node is created in the first level catalogue for said classification. Wherein the node contains the files name in accordance with the information about the attributes in said classification. The corresponding information about the attributes in the classification is defined as sub-nodes in the second level catalogue in the node in the first level catalogue. Wherein the sub-nodes include the names, addresses and playback information about the files episode.

EFFECT: increasing the speed of specified type files search.

15 cl, 11 dwg