Retrieving Documents Transitively Linked to an Initial Document

• US 20080222091A1
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Sweet, Richard Eric, Rowe, Edward Royce Warren
• Granted Patent: US 8,005,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/114 Pagination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/959 Network
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method for creating a distinguishing identifier of a collection of data including a primary document and one or more auxiliary documents digests each auxiliary document to create a respective auxiliary document digest, and creates a distinguishing identifier by digesting a concatenation of the primary document with all auxiliary document digests.

Claims

1. A method for creating a distinguishing identifier of a collection of data comprising a primary document and one or more auxiliary documents, comprising:

digesting each auxiliary document to create a respective auxiliary document digest; and

creating a distinguishing identifier by digesting a concatenation of the primary document with all auxiliary document digests.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the steps of digesting comprise applying a digital digest algorithm.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the digital digest algorithm is the MD5 Message Digest Algorithm.

4. A computer program, residing on a computer readable medium, for creating a distinguishing identifier of a collection of data comprising a primary document and one or more auxiliary documents, comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

digest each auxiliary document to create a respective auxiliary document digest; and

create a distinguishing identifier by digesting a concatenation of the primary document with all auxiliary document digests.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein:

the instructions for causing a computer to digest comprise instructions causing a computer to apply a digital digest algorithm.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the digital digest algorithm is the MD5 Message Digest Algorithm.