Synchronizing distributed work through document logs

• US 20070288441A1
• Filed: 05/18/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gregory Wolff, Kurt Piersol
• Original Assignee: Gregory Wolff, Kurt Piersol
• Inventors: Piersol, Kurt, Wolff, Gregory
• Granted Patent: US 8,903,788 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support

Abstract

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for synchronizing distributed work. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving first and second metadata entries, adding the first and second metadata entries to a set corresponding to a digital object, and providing access to first and second unique identifiers used for referencing the first and second metadata entries respectively, where the first and second unique identifiers are based on contents of the first and second metadata entries respectively.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a search request for content in which search scope is defined by specifying a hash value and a context for the search; and

performing the search.

2. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the context comprises information preceding the hash value in a request string.

3. The method defined in claim 2 wherein the information comprises one or more of a document log identifier and a digital object.

4. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the context is specified implicitly based on a server receiving the search request.

5. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the context includes one or more of a hostname and a hash of the hostname.

6. An article of manufacture having one or more recordable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive a search request for content in which search scope is defined by specifying a hash value and a context for the search; and

perform the search.

7. The article of manufacture defined in claim 6 wherein the context comprises information preceding the hash value in a request string.

8. An apparatus comprising:

an input to receive a search request for content in which search scope is defined by specifying a hash value and a context for the search; and

a processing unit to perform the search.

9. The apparatus defined in claim 8 wherein the context comprises information preceding the hash value in a request string.

10. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a search request for content in which search scope is defined by specifying a hash value and a context for the search; and

means for performing the search.