Systems and Methods for Cross-System Digital Asset Tag Propagation

• US 20070113289A1
• Filed: 10/31/2006
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Autonomy Incorporated (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Blumenau, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 7,958,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2135 Metering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2143 Clearing memory, e.g. to prevent the data from being stolen
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system. A method of propagating a digital asset identification tag associated with a digital asset includes: receiving a command from a client of the distributed computing system to the central computing resource, the command comprising an indication that a change occurred to the asset identification tag of a digital asset and the changed digital asset identification tag; locating the digital asset identification tag at the central resource; updating the digital asset identification tag in response to the received command; and transmitting the updated tag to another client having a copy of the digital asset.

Claims

1. A method of propagating a digital asset identification tag associated with a digital asset of a distributed computing environment, the environment having a central computing device that at least stores the digital asset identification tag for the digital asset and one or more clients the locally stores the digital asset, the method comprising:

(a) receiving a command from a client of the distributed computing system to the central computing resource, the command comprising an indication that a change occurred to the asset identification tag of a digital asset of the client and the changed digital asset identification tag;

(b) locating the digital asset identification tag at the central resource;

(c) updating the digital asset identification tag in response to the received command to generate an updated digital asset identification tag; and

(d) transmitting to another clients having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the command indicates that the change comprises the creation of a digital asset.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the command further comprises a global unique identifier of the digital asset.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the global unique identifier comprises a hash value.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the transmitting occurs in a different connection session than the receiving.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting to a first one of the another clients having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag during a first connection session and transmitting to a second of the another clients having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag during a second connection session.

7. A system for propagating a digital asset identification tag associated with a digital asset of a distributed computing environment, the environment having a central computing device that at least stores the digital asset identification tag for the digital asset and one or more clients the locally stores the digital asset, the system comprising:

(a) a client in communication with the network; and

(b) a central computing device in communication with a network, the central computing device configured to;

i. receive a command from the client, the command comprising an indication that a change occurred to the asset identification tag of a digital asset of the client and the changed digital asset identification tag;

ii. locate the digital asset identification tag at the central resource;

iii. update the digital asset identification tag in response to the received command to generate an updated digital asset identification tag; and

iv. transmit to another client having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the command indicates that the change comprises the creation of a digital asset.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the command further comprises a global unique identifier of the digital asset.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the global unique identifier comprises a hash value.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the central resources transmits the updated digital asset identification tag a different connection session than the receiving.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein the central resources transmits the updated digital asset identification tag to a first one of the another clients having a copy of the digital asset during a first connection session and transmits the updated digital asset identification tag to a second of the another clients having a copy of the digital asset during a second connection session.

13. A computer readable medium having executable instructions thereon to propagate a digital asset identification tag associated with a digital asset of a distributed computing environment, the environment having a central computing device that at least stores the digital asset identification tag for the digital asset and one or more clients the locally stores the digital asset, the computer readable medium comprising:

(a) instructions to receive a command from a client of the distributed computing system to the central computing resource, the command comprising an indication that a change occurred to the asset identification tag of a digital asset of the client and the changed digital asset identification tag

(b) instructions to locate the digital asset identification tag at the central resource;

(c) instructions to update the digital asset identification tag in response to the received command to generate an updated digital asset identification tag; and

(d) instructions to transmit to another clients having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein the instructions to receive a command include instructions to receive a command that indicate that the change comprises the creation of a digital asset.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein the instructions to receive a command include instructions to receive a command that comprises a global unique identifier of the digital asset.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein the instructions to receive a command that comprises a global unique identifier comprise instructions to receive a hash value.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein the instructions to transmit comprise instructions to transmits the update digital assets identification tag during a different connection session than the receiving.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein the instructions to transmit comprise instructions to transmit to a first one of the another clients having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag during a first connection session and transmitting to a second of the another clients having a copy of the digital asset the updated digital asset identification tag during a second connection session.