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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
May. 25, 2000
Brent C. Hawks, Hollister, CA (US);
Edmund Johnson, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Gary I. Mazo, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter A. Nicholls, Toronto, CA;
Ira L. Sheftman, San Jose, CA (US);
Brent C. Hawks, Hollister, CA (US);
Edmund Johnson, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Gary I. Mazo, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter A. Nicholls, Toronto, CA;
Ira L. Sheftman, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data structure embodied in a computer-readable storage medium for configuring connections from a local workstation between a file system residing on the local workstation and a file system residing on a remote host system. The data structure provides for such configuration by allowing the user to specify the host system, specify a host directory path within the host file system, and specify a mapping between a file within the host directory path on the host file system and a file on the local file system. After such configuration, the user may access the host file system file in the same manner as a local file system file. The data structure can encode information describing a file system connection between a local system and a host system in a metalanguage format comprising one or more tags, each tag having an identifier and a set of one or more attributes, wherein the encoded information comprises a file system connection descriptor which can be parsed according to the metalanguage tags.