Patent ID: 10686664

Abstract:
The use of the hierarchical list for displaying and operating resources of computing system by industry for very long time because of its easy for user access resources, such as the use of Microsoft's Window Explore for operating files and folders of a file system. However, the traditional use of the hierarchical list is directly using metadata of a resource structure, for example by using metadata of a file system. Therefore, upon remote access, for each user's access, the metadata must be recalculated from the file system itself that results tremendous demanding for computing power and increased response time to client device across a network. Therefore, the traditional use of hierarchical list such as Windows Explore can not be directly use across the Internet. This invention has overcome this problem by creating and updating a multi-layered hierarchical list in memory for eliminating the needs to re-calculating the metadata directly from a resource structure. Thus, it reduces the demanding for the computer power and also reduces demand for network bandwidth that occurred in traditional remote access of NFS and SMB. In addition, this solves the problems of traditional web based remote access product such as Yahoo Briefcase that can support many critical operations because it only can be operated one level for a document structure due to it only can display two levels at any time.