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Server administration tool using remote file browser

  • US 6,327,608 B1
  • Filed: 09/25/1998
  • Issued: 12/04/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a client-server computer system, a method for browsing server-based physical file directories remotely from a client over a network, comprising the following steps:

  • submitting a directory path in a request from the client to the server, the directory path specifying a path in the physical file directories;

    generating directory data pertaining to files and/or folders enumerated for the directory path;

    creating client-side executable code for execution on the client to cache the directory data at the client; and

    returning the executable code and the directory data from the server to the client.

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