APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE TO MANAGE ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL DOCUMENTS IN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT
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1. A method of managing electronic documents shared across networked satellite nodes remotely located from one another, the method comprising:
- storing a first plurality of electronic documents in a common electronic document repository where the first plurality of electronic documents includes electronic documents owned by at least two different owners remotely located from one another;
storing ownership information at a master node for the first plurality of electronic documents stored in the common electronic document repository, wherein the ownership information indicates that at least one of the electronic documents of the first plurality of electronic documents is owned by a first owner of the at least two different owners and at least one of the electronic documents of the first plurality of electronic documents is owned by a second owner of the at least two different owners, the second owner different from and remotely located with respect to the first owner; and
storing ownership information at the master node for a second plurality of electronic documents which are locally stored by at least one satellite node at a respective location remote from the common electronic repository,wherein the ownership information stored at the master node for the first and the second plurality of electronic documents indicates for each electronic document a logical entity that has authority to authorize changes to the respective electronic document.
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Abstract
Systems and methods of electronic or digital document management allow satellite offices, sites or facilities to replicate some documents in a shared or common electronic document repository, while storing other documents only locally, while allowing document management functions seamlessly across an enterprise independent of whether the electronic or digital documents or files are replicated to a shared or common repository, for instance a central electronic or digital document repository.
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25 Claims
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1. A method of managing electronic documents shared across networked satellite nodes remotely located from one another, the method comprising:
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storing a first plurality of electronic documents in a common electronic document repository where the first plurality of electronic documents includes electronic documents owned by at least two different owners remotely located from one another; storing ownership information at a master node for the first plurality of electronic documents stored in the common electronic document repository, wherein the ownership information indicates that at least one of the electronic documents of the first plurality of electronic documents is owned by a first owner of the at least two different owners and at least one of the electronic documents of the first plurality of electronic documents is owned by a second owner of the at least two different owners, the second owner different from and remotely located with respect to the first owner; and storing ownership information at the master node for a second plurality of electronic documents which are locally stored by at least one satellite node at a respective location remote from the common electronic repository, wherein the ownership information stored at the master node for the first and the second plurality of electronic documents indicates for each electronic document a logical entity that has authority to authorize changes to the respective electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A document management system, comprising:
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a common electronic document repository that includes at least one storage medium that stores electronic documents from a number of satellite nodes, at least some of the satellite nodes remotely located from each other; a master node that includes at least one processor and that stores ownership information for each electronic document stored by the common electronic document repository and that stores ownership information for a number of electronic documents stored locally by the satellite nodes and not stored at the common electronic document repository, the master node configured to replicate some of the electronic documents to the common electronic document repository and to not replicate other ones of the electronic documents to the common electronic document repository which electronic documents are only stored locally by the satellite nodes. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. At least one computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions executable by at least one processor to manage digital files between a hub node and various networked satellite nodes, by:
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storing ownership information by the hub node for a first number of digital files which are replicated in a common digital file repository and for at least a second number of digital files which are stored by a first satellite node in a first satellite node digital file repository and not replicated in the common digital file repository; severing requested ones of the digital files from the hub node to a second satellite node including at least one of the digital files replicated in the common digital file repository and at least one of the digital files stored in the first satellite node digital file repository and not replicated in the common electronic file repository. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of operating a first satellite node in a networked hub and spoke system, the method comprising:
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causing at least a first number of digital files to be replicated in a common digital file repository which includes digital files from at least one other satellite node; saving at least a second number of digital files in a local first satellite node repository without replication to the common digital file repository; and receiving at least one digital file from a second satellite node repository of a second node of the networked hub and node system via a hub node of the networked hub and spoke system. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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