Apparatus Method and System for Registration Effecting Information Access
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Abstract
An apparatus, method and system to register and provide a persistent identifier of information that may be located in multiple locations, formats, and accessible in variable fashions based on the context of use. The present disclosure further provides the ability to automatically make information available and associated with its identifier. The disclosure also details the ability to create identifier. The disclosure also details the ability to create identifiers from content authoring tools within and for documents and/or other information. The invention teaches how to associate a single identifier while making information available, and accessible under varying conditions, from varying locations, in varying formats, based on various contexts of access. The present disclosure further teaches an enhanced digital object identifier, an enhanced Handle system, and enhanced directory registry that facilitate the access, association, and instantiation of information over a communications network.
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90 Claims
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7. A method of using a computer to access information, comprising:
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allocating space in a storage facility for information; making the location of the allocated space addressable and accessible over a communications network; storing the information to the allocated space; generating a unique, persistent, and universal name identifier associated with the information; effecting the registration of the unique, persistent, and universal name identifier with an address proximate in time with allocation of space and storage of the information that are associated to the location where the information is stored in a database for resolving unique, persistent, and universal name identifiers and locations of associated information, wherein the unique, persistent, and universal name identifier is unique in the database. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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17. A method of using a computer, comprising:
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generating, automatically, an instruction for a prefix component for a unique, persistent, and universal name identifier; and generating, automatically and proximate in time with generating an instruction for a prefix component, an instruction to allocate space for information for which the unique, persistent, and universal name identifier is being registered and making the location of the allocated space addressable and accessible over a communications network. - View Dependent Claims (18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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83. A processor-enabled system for using a computer, comprising:
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means to generate, automatically, an instruction for a prefix component for a unique, persistent, and universal name identifier; and means to generate, automatically, an instruction for a suffix component for a unique, persistent, and universal name identifier; and means to generate, automatically and proximate in time with generating an instruction for a prefix component and generating an instruction for a suffix component, an instruction to allocate space for information for which the unique, persistent, and universal name identifier is being registered and making the location of the allocated space addressable and accessible over a communications network. - View Dependent Claims (86, 87, 88, 89)
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