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Methods and systems for managing composite data files

  • US 8,060,514 B2
  • Filed: 08/04/2006
  • Issued: 11/15/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by a data processing system, comprising:

  • receiving a composite document;

    breaking the composite document into multiple subdocuments of a plurality levels of depth, the subdocuments having different file types;

    individually indexing the content of the multiple subdocuments and adding the content to an indexed database;

    capturing metadata from the multiple subdocuments, wherein the metadata describes the content of the subdocuments and independently storing the metadata of the subdocuments into a metadata database; and

    ,searching the stored metadata using a search query, wherein the search is performed as the search query is being received.

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