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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1999
Jason D. Goldman, Fort Collins, CO (US);
David J. Lachelt, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for accessing an information repository, including computer readable program code stored on computer readable media, where the computer readable program code includes code for organizing information stored in the information repository into a hierarchy of organizational information, and the code creates a hierarchy of a number of derived containers that have contents and are generated in conformance with an information model which has a hierarchy of type-defined container definition nodes, where some of the derived containers correspond to type-defined container definition nodes that are organization-based container definition nodes that represent a category of information in the information repository.