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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2005
Applicants:

Ullas Gargi, San Jose, CA (US);

Peng Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Pere Obrador, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ullas Gargi, San Jose, CA (US);

Peng Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Pere Obrador, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Metadata placeholders are used for distributed processing. The metadata placeholders are added to digital objects. The placeholders are filled with requests to perform certain downstream processing on the objects. The placeholders are at least partially empty so they can be filled in by nodes that perform the downstream processing.


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