Patent ID: 6347321
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: G06F,G11B,Y10S

Abstract:
An information file apparatus which stores information files together with search information, which is used for searching the information files later, in a detachable storage medium, comprising:a readout component, arranged to read out the search information registered in an attached first storage medium; a storage, arranged to receive and store the search information read by said readout component; a checker, arranged to check whether or not search information has already been written in an attached second storage medium; and a writing component, arranged to write the search information stored in said storage in the attached second medium, so as to use as search information for the attached second storage medium, where it is determined by said checker that search information is not yet written in the attached second storage medium, wherein said readout component reads a keyword candidate list as the search information, and wherein said writing component writes, in the attached second storage medium, the keyword candidate list of the information files stored in the attached first storage medium to use the written list as the keyword candidate list of the information files later stored in the attached second stowage medium.