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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1999
Russell T. Nakano, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Terrence T. W. Yee, Saratoga, CA (US);
Britt H. Park, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sanford L. Barr, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jack S. Jia, San Jose, CA (US);
Gajanana Hegde, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Cochrane, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Interwoven Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for file management is comprised of hierarchical files systems, referred to as “areas.” There are three types of areas: work areas, staging areas, and edition areas. A work area is a modifiable file system, and, in a work area a user can create, edit, and delete files and directories. A staging area is a read-only file system that supports select versioning operations. Various users of work areas can integrate their work by submitting the contents of their work area to the staging area. In the staging area, developers can compare their work and see how their changes fit together. An edition is a read-only file system, and the contents of a staging area are virtually copied into an edition to create a frozen, read-only snapshot of the contents of the staging area. One use of the system and method for file management is as a website development tool.