DATA OBJECT IDENTIFICATION, TRACKING, FILTERING AND MONITORING USING DATA OBJECT FINGERPRINTS IN A REPOSITORY

• US 20080114812A1
• Filed: 01/10/2008
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Beiter, Randy, Keyes, David, Stack, Charles, Kolli, Sashi
• Application Number:
  US11/972,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20080114812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures

Abstract

The present invention relates to, among other things, the use of digital object fingerprints to account for digital objects.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a repository on a server, wherein the repository stores one or more digital objects, wherein each digital object in the repository is associated with a unique digital object identifier, wherein the unique digital object identifier is stored in a database, and wherein a hashing algorithm is used to determine whether a second digital object is a copy of a first digital object associated with a first unique digital object identifier; and

a plug-in to an integrated development environment on a client, wherein the plug-in includes data object tracking software to communicate digital object identification information to the repository on the server.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the database indicates when the client has acquired a copy of the digital object identified by the digital object identifier.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the database keeps track of the number of times each digital object in the repository has been requested by the client.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein contextual information is stored in the database.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the digital object identifier identifies software files.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more clients periodically communicate data-object tracking information to the server.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the server tracks which clients store copies of digital objects in the repository regardless of whether the copies of digital objects were downloaded from the repository.

8. A method, comprising:

storing a digital object in a repository on a server, wherein the repository stores one or more digital objects;

associating a unique digital object identifier with the digital object stored in the repository on the server, wherein the unique digital object identifier is stored in a database, and wherein a hashing algorithm is used to determine whether a second digital object is a copy of a first digital object associated with a first unique digital object identifier; and

communicating digital object identification information to the repository on the server from a plug-in to an integrated development environment on a client, wherein the plug-in includes data object tracking software.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the database indicates when the client has acquired a copy of the digital object identified by the digital object identifier.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the database keeps track of the number of times each digital object in the repository has been requested by the client.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein contextual information is also stored in the database

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the digital object identifier identifies software files.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein one or more clients periodically communicate data-object tracking information to the server.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the server tracks which clients store copies of digital objects in the repository regardless of whether the objects were downloaded from the repository.

15. A computer readable storage medium, storing instructions executable by a processor, the instructions comprising:

storing a digital object in a repository on a server, wherein the repository stores one or more digital objects;

associating a unique digital object identifier with the digital object stored in the repository on the server, wherein the unique digital object identifier is stored in a database, and wherein a hashing algorithm is used to determine whether a second digital object is a copy of a first digital object associated with a first unique digital object identifier; and

communicating digital object identification information to the repository on the server from a plug-in to an integrated development environment on a client, wherein the plug-in includes data object tracking software.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the database indicates when the client has acquired a copy of the digital object identified by the digital object identifier.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the database keeps track of the number of times each digital object in the repository has been requested by the client.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein contextual information is also stored in the database

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the digital object identifier identifies software files.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein one or more clients periodically communicate data-object tracking information to the server.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the server tracks which clients store copies of digital objects in the repository regardless of whether the objects were downloaded from the repository.