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US 8,180,814 B1Granted
System and method for file management
AssigneeDocbert, LLC
InventorPaul Stuart Swengler
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide, among other things, an improved system and method for building logical associations (links) between files and for assigning attributes to the files and/or links. In embodiments of the invention, such attribute data is indexed in a data store according to Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) in each file header.
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A file management system comprising:
- a virtual file system module configured to provide at least one abstraction of a plurality of files;
- a media retrieval/storage engine coupled to the virtual file system module;
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- a data store coupled to the media retrieval/storage system, the data store configured to store file attribute data associated with each of the plurality of files, each of the plurality of files having a universally unique identifier (UUID) in a header, the UUID being independent of a filename, the file attribute data indexed in the data store using the UUID as a unique key.
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