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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2005
John S. Erickson, Norwich, VT (US);
David Murray Banks, Bristol, GB;
Mark Henry Butler, Bristol, GB;
John S. Erickson, Norwich, VT (US);
David Murray Banks, Bristol, GB;
Mark Henry Butler, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A digital repositoryincludes data items. A user can add additional functionality or program routines to data item by including as a data item a data processing identifier pointing to at least one data processing routine. Such routines are accessed by a clientby sending from a client to the digital repositorya request to access a data item, wherein the repository provides an interface description documentfrom the digital repositoryto the clientas the response to the request. The clientcan then transmit a data processing request from the client to a serviceidentified by the data processing identifier of the interface description document, the data processing request including the identifier from the interface description document.