Patent ID: 8782044

Claim:
A file management apparatus, comprising: a storage unit to store a binder to bind one or more files; and a controller in electrical communication with the storage unit to provide a file management window including a binder display field, and to support a function of searching for the stored binder in the storage unit using the file management window by allowing a user to input a desired search term and a specific type of location in which the search term is stored such that the specific type of location is selected from among a binder and a folder, wherein the controller provides a file display field together with the binder display field in the file management window, and binds files selected from the file display field into the binder selected from the binder display field, and wherein the files on the file display field included in the one file management window with the binder display field are bound into the binders on the binder display field by being dragged and dropped.