US 2006/0218623 A1 · Method and apparatus for distributed information management

Abstract

The information management system such as might be used for a source code management system. The information management system is distributed throughout an enterprise and is operated to allow secure communications with remote sites connected to a central site over an unsecured network. A secure channel is created through the unsecured network to transmit encryption and identifier information for one or more artifacts. This information is used to access an artifact from a remote site and decrypt it. Because artifacts, though encrypted, retain an identifiable form, they may be cached throughout the information management system. The ability to cache artifacts significantly reduces the bandwidth required for operating the information management system from remote sites.

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Dependent claims

A method of communicating between a server having access to a plurality of artifacts and a client having access to a proxy server, the proxy server having a cache associated therewith, the cache storing copies of artifacts, the method comprising:

a) communicating a first request for an artifact from the client to the server;
b) in response to the request, communicating from the server to the client encoded information about the artifact;
c) generating, from the client to the proxy server, a second request using the encoded information;
and
d) when a copy of the artifact is stored in the cache, providing in response to the second request a copy of the artifact from the cache.

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A source code control system of the type having equipment at a first site, equipment at a second site and a network interconnecting the equipment at the first site and the equipment at the second site, wherein:

a) the equipment at the first site comprises:
i) a memory storage device storing a plurality of versions of a plurality of source code files;
ii) a server comprising a computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for:
A) encrypting a version of a source code file to create an encrypted artifact;
B) communicating over the network the encrypted artifact;
C) communicating over the network encryption information concerning the encrypted artifact;
b) the equipment at the second site comprises a client computer, the client computer comprising a computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for:
i) obtaining the encryption information;
ii) receiving the encrypted artifact over the network;
and
iii) using the encryption information to decrypt the encrypted artifact to generate the version of the source code file.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus for distributed information management

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Method and apparatus for distributed information management

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Abstract

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