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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2000
Edward R. Zayas, Salem, UT (US);
Stephen G. Toner, Sundance, UT (US);
Delos C. Jensen, Orem, UT (US);
Stephen R. Carter, Provo, UT (US);
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
In a hierarchically organized distributed file system, resources belong to the containers in which they are located. These resources do not have to be co-located with the, containers in which they are stored, but can be distributed over the file system. To locate a desired resource, the unique name of the resource is determined. Moving upward through the containers in the hierarchically organized distributed file system, the lowest container with a location service is determined. The location service is queried for known instances of the resource. Any instance of the resource returned from the location service can then be utilized. Semantic contexts can also be applied to the network to control access or usage of both the location services and resource instances. The use of semantic contexts allows for improvements in network usage, security, resource allocation, and the like.