Patent ID: 7107296
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: G06F,G11B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: reading a record containing old times that one or more folders in a computer's filing system were last modified; marking in the record that each of the one or more folders needs to have new times determined; determining a new time that a first folder of the one or more folders in the computer's filing system was last modified; comparing the new time for the first folder with the old time for the first folder; marking in the record that the first folder needs to be scanned if the new time and the old time are not equivalent or does not need to be scanned if the new time and the old time are equivalent; determining if the new time and the old time of the first folder are not equivalent, a second folder's new time that a second folder of the one or more folders in the computer's filing system was last modified; scanning media-file contents of the first folder if the new time and the old time of the first folder are not equivalent; modifying, if the media-file contents of the first folder have changed, a media library based on the change comparing the second folder's new time with the old time for the second folder and then mark in the record that the second folder needs to be scanned if the second folder's new time and the old time of the second folder are not equivalent or does not need to be scanned if the second folder's new time and the old time of the second folder are equivalent.