Patent ID: 9076488
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A computer system for automatically creating a universal reference file in an operating system that supports hard links, the system comprising: a memory and a processor in communication with the memory; a pre-determined hierarchy of a directory structure storing one or more digital media files having multi-media content, the one or more digital media files being wrapped using a proprietary encoder; an automatically created first folder in the pre-determined hierarchy of the directory structure storing, using the memory, the universal reference file associated with the one or more digital media files; one or more automatically created hard links, referring to each of the one or more digital media files; an automatically created second folder in the pre-determined hierarchy of the directory structure storing, using the memory, the one or more hard links; the universal reference file containing embedded information, the embedded information including an automatically obtained location of each of the one or more hard links and source name and time code information associated with the multi-media content; wherein the universal reference file refers to the one or more hard links and is labeled as being created by a native encoder and not labeled as being created by the proprietary encoder, enabling applications that are not compatible the one or more digital media files wrapped in the proprietary encoder format to access the multi-media content of the one or more digital media files using the universal reference file readable by the native encoder; and wherein deleting the one or more digital media files does not affect the functionality of the one or more hard links, enabling access to the multi-media content of the one or more digital files even after the one or more digital media files are deleted.