Patent ID: 6356902
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for storing and organizing multimedia objects by decomposing a multi-level tree structure having a plurality of nodes into a graph map using single-link graph nodes corresponding to the plurality of nodes of the multi-level tree structure and implemented using a single set of memory locations, comprising:(a) assigning one of a name and an address to each node in the tree structure in ascending order from a root node until the last leaf nodes in the last level of the multiple level tree structure have been reached and storing the assigned one of the name and the address of the next multimedia object in the single-link graph node memory location; (b) mapping each node in the tree structure to a single-link graph node, said single-link graph node consisting of a pointer memory location that stores the one of the name and the address of a first child node of sub-tree nodes in a lower level of the tree structure; and (c) storing the graph nodes that are multimedia objects arranged one of horizontally and vertically in a tree structure into a page memory.