Patent ID: 8046718
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer readable medium storing computer instructions, which when executed, enables a computer system to manage data using a file name on a computer system having a graphical user interface and a file system storing files with a file hierarchy, the computer instructions comprising: entering a command from an application to create a file; displaying the file hierarchy; allowing a user to select at least one folder; saving data in a first file having a file name in one selected folder; in each of the other selected folders, creating a shortcut file having a different file name from the first file and containing a pointer to the first file; creating a hidden file in the folder containing the first file, the hidden file containing a list of pointers to the shortcut files; and using the hidden file during file management operations to keep track of occurrences of the shortcut files in the file hierarchy, wherein a file may be opened and modified, the opening including: a first method including saving the modified version of the opened file in the opened file, regardless of whether the opened file was opened via the opened file or one of the at least one shortcut files pointing to the opened file, and a second method including saving the modified version of the opened file to at least one, but not all of, the at least one shortcuts, according to the user's selection.