Disc management system
OwnerBradley P. Laneinventor
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Abstract
An optical storage media management system and process for storing and organizing a relatively large collection of optical discs in the form of a display binder with a plurality of display sheets including associated indicia matching a positional identifier indicating the location of the disc. In one embodiment, the binder is used in conjunction with a table of contents indicating the position of individual optical discs in relation to the binder contents and a centralized database for storing optical disc information in a categorized format in cooperation with a computerized table of contents generator for generating the table of contents for the binder.
Claims16
An online method of organizing a large collection of retrievable compact disc related materials comprising:
- selecting a display binder including a plurality of loose leaf sheets, including respective pockets having transparent viewing panels and respective identifying indicia uniquely associated therewith;
- providing an online database structured to store a master listing of compact disc titles including the titles of said compact disc related materials;
- inserting the respective compact disc related materials into said pockets having said identifying indicia;
- selecting from said database the title of said compact disc titles to provide a collection of titles;
- assigning positional identifiers correlating the respective said identifying indicia to the respective titles of said collection of titles;
- generating a table of contents printout by selecting said collection of titles and their respective said positional identifiers;
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- attaching said table of contents to said binder whereby a user may view said table of contents, select a desired title and, note the positional identifier associated with said desired title, flip said sheets to select a pocket bearing identifying indicia corresponding with the positional identifier associated with said selected title.
A method for organizing a substantial number of collectible materials comprising:
- providing a display album including a selected number of loose leaf pages having respective storage sleeves forming pockets with an opening along one side and having a viewing window, said pockets including respective indicia;
- selecting a plurality of said collectible materials to be organized in said album;
- placing selected said collectible materials in respective said pockets such that said collectible materials may be viewed through respective said viewing windows;
- generating a table of contents including a listing of material descriptors describing respective said collectible materials and assigning a selected positional identifier to respective said material descriptors corresponding to said respective indicia of respective said pockets wherein respective said collectible materials are placed;
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- attaching said table of contents to said display album so that a user may determine the location of collectible materials in said pockets by referring to said positional identifier associated with a selected collectible material descriptor in said table of contents and flip to a page having a pocket with indicia matching said referred to positional identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.