公开(公告)号：US20150269147A1

公开(公告)日：2015-09-24

申请号：US14731807

申请日：2015-06-05

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Seok-Kyu JANG ,  Young-June WOO ,  Young-Hoon MIN ,  Sin-Jae LEE

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F16/164 ,  G06F16/1847

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing metadata in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes, upon insertion of an external memory, acquiring a unique identifier of an external memory, determining whether a record having information identical to information of a file included in the external memory exists if the unique identifier is identical to a previously stored unique identifier, and reusing metadata included in the record if the record exists.