Patent ID: 6938045

Claim:
A file organization system comprising: a first computing device having a first clocking reference and a first storage space; a plurality of first local files stored in said first storage space, wherein said first storage space further has a dedicated first directory-modified-date, DMD, parameter updated to the current time according to said first clocking reference in response to a modification of said first storage space including at least one of the addition, deletion, and renaming of any of said first local files; a second computing device having a first communication link with said first computing device and maintaining first statistical data, as supplied by said first computing device, on said first local files, said first statistical data including at least one of the name, the size, and the file type of said first local files, said first statistical data further including a first file-modification-date, FMD, parameter for storing a second modification date supplied by said first computing device, said second modification date being dependent on the most recent occurrence of a modification of any of said first local files as determined by said first clocking reference; said first and second computing devices being effective for selectively implementing a first synchronization routine including the comparing of said first DMD parameter to said first FMD parameter, and responding to said first DMD parameter having a more recent modification date than said first FMD parameter by transferring update information on said first local files as determined by said first computing device to said second computing device for updating said first statistical data accordingly, and for resetting said first FMD parameter equal to said first DMD parameter.