File system interface to a database
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1. A method, performed on a computer system, of accessing information in a database, the method comprising:
- making information corresponding to a set of database objects available as a file system structure having one or more file system objects;
receiving from an application a file system request corresponding to the available one or more file system objects; and
transforming the file system request from the application into a database operation;
wherein making the information available as a file system structure having one or more file objects is performed transparently to the application.
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Abstract
Information in a database is accessed with a computer system by transforming a file system request from an application into a database query and retrieving information corresponding to the database query from the database. The retrieved information is made available to the application as a file system object, for example, as a directory, a file, a link or a collection thereof.
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1. A method, performed on a computer system, of accessing information in a database, the method comprising:
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making information corresponding to a set of database objects available as a file system structure having one or more file system objects; receiving from an application a file system request corresponding to the available one or more file system objects; and transforming the file system request from the application into a database operation;
wherein making the information available as a file system structure having one or more file objects is performed transparently to the application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer-based method of accessing information in a database, the method comprising:
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retrieving information corresponding to a set of database objects from the database; and presenting the retrieved information to an application as a file system structure having one or more file system objects;
accessing, prior to retrieving information, an extension module that specifies the sets of database objects or the file structure or both. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computer-based data repository management system comprising;
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a database of information organized into database objects; a file system-based, database-unaware application program for manipulating data in the form of file system objects; and a file system interface to the database which makes information corresponding to a set of database objects available to the file system-based application as a file system structure having one or more file system objects. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A computer program, residing on a computer readable medium, for a data repository management system comprising a file system-based, database-unaware application and a database, the computer program comprising instructions to cause a computer system to perform the following operations:
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receive a file system request issued by the file system-based application; convert the file system request into a database operation; retrieve information corresponding to a set of database objects from the database by performing the database operation on the database; transform the retrieved information into a file system structure having one or more file system objects according to predetermined criteria; and present the one or more file system objects to the file system-based application. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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46. A method, performed on a computer system, of accessing information in a database, the method comprising:
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making information corresponding to a set of database objects available to a database-unaware application as a file system structure having one or more file system objects; receiving from the database-unaware application a file system request corresponding to the available file system structure having one or more file system objects; transforming the file system request from the database-unaware application into a database operation; performing the database operation on the database using a database engine; retrieving information from the database in response to the database operation; and returning the information associated with the database object to the database-unaware application as one or more file system objects. - View Dependent Claims (47)
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48. A computer-based method of accessing information in a database, the method comprising:
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encoding a file handle with information that specifies a set of database objects in a database; transmitting the encoded file handle in response to a file system request issued by a database-unaware application; and decoding the received file handle to identify the set of database objects associated with the file system request. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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