International Business Machines Corporation

Tom B Slade

Mathews Thomas

Julio Wong

Bradley T Freese

One embodiment of the disclosure provides a storage unit of digitally encoded information stored on a non-transitory storage medium. The storage unit can be referred to as an intelligent content item. The intelligent content item can include an intelligent wrapper, content data, and intelligent functions. The intelligent wrapper can enable the intelligent content item to function as a self-managing unit of storage. The content data can be contained within the intelligent wrapper. The intelligent functions can be contained within the intelligent wrapper. The intelligent functions can represent abilities of the intelligent wrapper to autonomously and dynamically manage a state of the intelligent content item and manage specifics for content consumers to access and utilize the content data.

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Tom B Slade