System and methods of managing content in one or more repositories

• US 9,600,374 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyland Switzerland, Sarl
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Technology Sarl (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Gasser, Otto Hunter, Romatoski, Jeffrey Allen, Atanasiu, Razvan
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TRUONG V
• Application Number:
  US14/145,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20140379639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,176 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1448 Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

A method of managing documents in an active repository that includes receiving one or more documents having metadata from a plurality of cache repositories; registering the metadata in a registry; storing the one or more documents in the active repository; and replicating the stored one or more documents and the registered metadata to a backup system.

Claims

1. A system for managing content having metadata, comprising:

an edge facility including a content source and a cache repository communicatively connected to each other, the content source for generating the content having the metadata, and the cache repository for storing the content received from the content source;

a primary system communicatively connected to the edge facility, the primary system including a central registry and a central repository, the central registry for receiving the metadata from the edge facility, and registering the content in the central registry using the metadata, and the central repository for receiving and storing the content from the cache repository; and

a secondary system communicatively connected to the primary system and the edge facility, the secondary system including a backup repository and a backup registry, the backup repository for storing a backup of the content received and stored in the central repository, and the backup registry for storing a backup of the central registry.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the backup repository replicates the content from the central repository to the backup repository.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a number of days for storing the content in the cache repository is configurable by a user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the cache repository deletes the stored content after a high water mark is reached.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the edge facility, the primary system and the secondary system transfer the content and the metadata to each other through cross-enterprise document reliable interchange (XDR).

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the edge facility is from a plurality of edge facilities remotely connected with the primary system and the secondary system, the plurality of edge facilities for communicating the content having the metadata to and from other edge facilities of the plurality of edge facilities.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the edge facility further includes a content consumer communicatively connected with the content source and the cache repository, the content consumer for requesting and retrieving the content stored in the cache repository.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein if the cache repository cannot return the content requested by the content consumer, the content consumer requests for the content from the central repository of the primary system.

9. A method of managing documents in a networked system, comprising:

receiving at an active repository located at a primary system one or more documents having metadata from a plurality of cache repositories, each of the plurality of cache repositories located at each of a plurality of edge facilities remotely connected to the primary system;

registering the metadata in a registry located at the primary system;

storing the one or more documents in the active repository; and

replicating the stored one or more documents and the registered metadata to a backup repository and a backup registry, respectively, the backup repository and the backup registry located at a backup system remotely connected to the primary system and the plurality of edge facilities.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the receiving the one or more documents is performed through cross-enterprise document reliable interchange (XDR).

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the replicating the stored one or more documents to the backup system is a SQL replication between the active repository and the backup repository.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the replicating the registered metadata to the backup system is a database replication between the registry and the backup registry.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising replicating the stored one or more documents from a storage interface of the active repository to a storage interface of the backup repository.

14. A method of managing one or more documents in a passive repository, comprising:

receiving at the passive repository located at a first system a document from an active repository located at a second system, the second system remotely connected to the first system;

receiving at the first system metadata from an active registry located at the second system, the metadata associated with the document received from the active repository;

storing the document at the passive repository of the first system to create a backup copy of the document; and

registering the metadata at a passive registry of the first system to create a backup copy of the metadata associated with the document stored at the passive repository.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the storing the one or more documents includes replicating the document from the active repository to the passive repository.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the replicating is performed automatically when the active repository receives the document from a cache repository located at a third system, the third system remotely connected to the first and the second systems.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the passive repository replicates back to the active repository.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the registering the metadata at the passive registry includes replicating the metadata from the active registry to the passive registry.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the passive repository is used by a plurality of cache repositories located at a plurality of edge facilities, each of the plurality of edge facilities remotely connected to the first and second systems, to retrieve the document when the active repository of the second system is in a downtime condition.