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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1992
John Andrew Dysart, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Stuart Showman, Cupertino, CA (US);
William M Crow, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Michael Williams, Lydney, GB;
Brian Wright McBride, Wokingham, GB;
John Rodney Senior, Bristol, GB;
Charles H Whelan, Placerville, CA (US);
Brian Murdoch, Wokingham, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A file management system allows the linking of objects. In each link one object serves as a parent and the other as a child. When a parent object is copied the parent object is copied to produce a copy of the parent object. Additionally, the child objects of the parent object are copied s well, except in the case when the child object is designated as a special public object, each child of the parent object is copied to produce a copy of the child object. Each copy of a child object is then linked to the copy of the parent object. When a child object is designated as a special public object, the child object is linked to the copy of the parent object.