METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUPING CONTENT ITEMS

摘要

The invention relates to a system for grouping content items. A consumer equipment or computer (100) comprises a grouping principle processor (109) that determines a content item grouping principle used by a user to group content items such as music files, video files or email. The content item grouping principle is determined in response to a grouping category scheme, such as a folder structure used to store content items. The apparatus (100) further comprises a classification characteristic processor (113) for determining a classification characteristic of a new content item. For example the classification characteristic may relate to an artist of a music file and the content item grouping principle may comprise a list of folders which comprise music files associated with specific artists. The apparatus (100) additionally comprises a grouping processor (115) for grouping the first content item with other content items by comparing the determined classification characteristic with the information of the content item grouping principle.