Generating and merging keys for grouping and differentiating volumes of files

摘要

Methods and apparatus teach a digital spectrum of a file. The digital spectrum is used to map a file's position in a multi-dimensional space. This position relative to another file's position reveals distances between the files. Closest files can be grouped together. When contemplating voluminous numbers of files for digital spectrums, various methods include: concatenating all such files together to get a single key useful for creating a file's spectrum; or compressing files individually and combining their collective dictionaries into a single dictionary with or without the use of tree mechanisms that defines the digital spectrum. Each provides advantage over the other. The latter consumes considerably less run time because each compression event can be distributed to a separate processor. Method two provides better spectrums because it is more “informationally” valid than is method one.

主权项

1. In a computing system environment, a method of differentiating a plurality of files stored on one or more computing devices, comprising:
compressing each file from the plurality of files, and during the compressing creating a plurality of individual keys one key for each of the plurality of files and each key representing symbol patterns for information content in the file to which it relates; and converting and merging the plurality of individual keys into a single set key that reflects all the symbol patterns occurring over the files, and each individual key is processed for deriving a specific digital spectrum for a given file for which it represents and each individual key compared to remaining keys for providing a relationship for the file to which that individual key relates relative to each of remaining ones of the files and those remaining files' keys, and wherein each key for each file is an algorithmic sum of other smaller keys associated with that file, and wherein each key is summed to include the other smaller keys as addends within that key.