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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1996
David T Bellinger, Atlanta, GA (US);
Andrew J Garner, IV, Charlotte, NC (US);
Wachovia Corporation, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A method for updating detecting and loading CD volume indexes from a multiple-CD set to a cumulative volume table contained in a computer memory. The method employs an volume index file on each intermediate CD of the set along with a dual index file feature on the last CD of the set. The second index file on the last CD is a cumulative file of all the index files contained on all the CDs of the set. The cumulative index file on the last CD is compared to the cumulative volume table to generate a list of missing volumes which have not already been loaded into computer memory. The method permits determining whether a given CD is a single CD or a CD that is one of a multiple-CD set by detecting the presence of a second volume index file on the CD.