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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2002
Rachel Jones, Cambridge, GB;
Allan Maclean, Cambridge, GB;
Richard Bentley, Cambridge, GB;
Graham Button, Huntingdon, GB;
Jon O'brien, Cambridge, GB;
Kevin Palfreyman, Cambridge, GB;
James E. Pycock, St. Ives, GB;
Rachel Jones, Cambridge, GB;
Allan MacLean, Cambridge, GB;
Richard Bentley, Cambridge, GB;
Graham Button, Huntingdon, GB;
Jon O'Brien, Cambridge, GB;
Kevin Palfreyman, Cambridge, GB;
James E. Pycock, St. Ives, GB;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
In an electronic document filing system, placeholder objects are used to provide an explicit representation of document files which are not yet present but which are explicitly expected by the system. A placeholder object can be a real filing system object, which may be processed by the filing system in the same manner as any other filing system object, and can include filing system data such as file metadata. The metadata may be associated with an expected source for the document file (e.g., for automatic capture of a paper document from a scanner).