Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Richard Xia

David C James

Gaurav Raghu Dhawan

Jun Wang

Jeff Liu

Sobia Tariq

Peter Francis Martone

Joshua Pointer

An item grouping mechanism may be applied to files or other computer objects to allow the files or objects to be accessed according to the group definition. The group definition may be defined in a table with other group definitions and distributed across an organization so that each device using the group definition may have files or other items presented in a consistent manner. The group definition may be distributed through a different mechanism than for the files or other items. If a device determines that a file defined in the group definition is missing from a local store, the device may retrieve the file from a distribution server.

Organization system for distributed items

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Richard Xia