Patent ID: 8224878

Claim:
An apparatus for managing application-specific content data in an information terminal, the apparatus comprising: a control unit in the information terminal; and a memory module in the information terminal, the memory module comprising: a plurality of data storage units for storing the application-specific content data, wherein each of the plurality of data storage units stores application-specific content data provided by a different one of a plurality of data generation applications; a content information database (DB) for storing only content data information corresponding to the application-specific content data according to a plurality of categories being set according to at least one of an application type, a data format type and a data storage location type; and a content manager for receiving a request message for specific content data information from an application of the information terminal, for searching a category corresponding to the request message in the content information DB and for providing content-information-DB index information of the content data information, which is generated by combining an index number of the searched category with an index number of the content data information stored in the searched category, in response to the request message, whereby the application can obtain content data information about the application-specific content data corresponding to the request message without directly accessing at least one of the plurality of data storage units of the plurality of data generation applications to search for the application-specific content data; wherein, when the user selects a category, a list of content data stored in the selected category is displayed so as to enable the user to select one of the displayed content data, and index information of content data selected by the user is provided.