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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Michael P. Salisbury, Mountain View, CA (US);
James P. Dourish, San Francisco, CA (US);
Warren K. Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony G. LaMarca, Redwood City, CA (US);
John O. Lamping, Los Altos, CA (US);
Karin Petersen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Douglas B. Terry, San Carlos, CA (US);
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A virtual document generated within the environment of a document management system. The document management system provides for the separation of the document content from properties which describe the content. Bit providers are implemented to retrieve the content for a document in a manner such that the document is unaware of the location of the content which is retrieved. Generation of a virtual document recognizes that a one-to-one correlation between a document and the contents which make up that document are not required. Therefore, content for a single DMS document may be dispersed across numerous storage repositories. Alternatively, a virtual document may be a sub-portion of a file on a single repository, or a combination of such contents.