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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2002
David Mun-hien Choy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sudipta Deb Deb, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tawei HU, San Jose, CA (US);
Lily Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Carlin Nelson, Hollister, CA (US);
Edward Joseph Perry, Cary, NC (US);
Mayank Vipin Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
I-shin Andy Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Howard Hao Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
David Mun-Hien Choy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sudipta Deb Deb, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tawei Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
Lily Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Carlin Nelson, Hollister, CA (US);
Edward Joseph Perry, Cary, NC (US);
Mayank Vipin Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
I-Shin Andy Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Howard Hao Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A content management system provides versioning capability that can either be controlled by the client application or be transparent thereto. Control of document versions depends on the root and child component attributes that are defined by the hierarchical structure of the document. When a document is updated, the present system performs any or all of the following scenarios as desired by the user: replace the existing attribute values stored in the root component instance for a specified document; replace the existing attribute values stored in a specified child component instance for the specified document; add a new child component instance into the hierarchical structure for the specified document; or delete an existing child component instance from the hierarchical structure for the specified document.