DIGITAL FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH FILE MAPPING FOR HIGH RESOLUTION AND OTHER IMAGES

• US 20080235262A1
• Filed: 10/17/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industrial Color, Inc. (Industrial Color Brands, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Industrial Color, Inc. (Industrial Color Brands, Inc.)
• Inventors: Holm, Aaron H., Kalalian, Steven P.
• Application Number:
  US11/873,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235262A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Uploading high resolution or other digital assets includes searching a first directory in a web-enabled digital asset management system for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in an external directory. A copy of the digital asset from the external directory is stored in a database with a link to the corresponding one or more digital assets in the first directory.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method of uploading high resolution or other digital assets, the method comprising:

searching a first directory in a web-enabled digital asset management system for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in an external directory; and

storing a copy of the digital asset from the external directory in a database with a link to the corresponding one or more digital assets in the first directory.

2. The method of claim 1 including providing, in response to a user request, access through a web-enabled user interface to the digital asset stored in the database.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the first directory includes low resolution versions of digital assets, and the digital asset stored in the database is a high resolution version digital asset corresponding to one or more of the low resolution digital assets in the first directory.

4. The method of claim 3 including providing access through a web-enabled user interface to the high resolution digital asset stored in the database, in response to a user request for a high resolution version of a digital asset in the first directory.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the external directory is located in a storage node registered on the web-based digital asset management system.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method is performed for an entire job in the first directory.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the file type and file size of the digital asset from the external directory also are stored in the database.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein, in response to a user'"'"'s selection through a web-enabled user interface of a file associated with a particular digital asset in the first directory, the corresponding file of the digital asset stored in the database is presented to a browser for user download so that the particular digital asset in the file can be displayed through the user interface.

9. A digital asset management system for uploading high resolution digital assets, the system comprising:

a database;

a first directory of digital assets; and

a server operable to;

search the first directory for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in an external directory; and

store a copy of the digital asset from the external directory in the database with a link to the corresponding one or more digital assets in the first directory.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the server is operable, in response to a user request, to provide access through a web-enabled user interface to the digital asset stored in the database.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the first directory includes low resolution versions of digital assets, and the digital asset stored in the database is a high resolution version digital asset corresponding to one or more of the low resolution digital assets in the first directory.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the server is operable to provide access through a web-enabled user interface to the high resolution digital asset stored in the database, in response to a user request for a high resolution version of a digital asset in the first directory.

13. The system of claim 9 wherein the external directory is located in a storage node registered on the digital asset management system.

14. The system of claim 9 wherein the server is operable to performed the following for an entire job in the first directory:

search the first directory for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in the external directory; and

store a copy of the digital asset from the external directory in the database with a link to the corresponding one or more digital assets in the first directory

15. The system of claim 9 wherein the server is operable to store in the database the file type and file size of the digital asset from the external directory.

16. The system of claim 9 wherein the server is operable, in response to a user'"'"'s selection through a web-enabled user interface of a file associated with a particular digital asset in the first directory, to present the corresponding file of the digital asset stored in the database to a browser for user download so that the particular digital asset in the file can be displayed through the user interface.

17. A article comprising a machine-readable medium storing machine-readable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine to:

search a first directory in a web-enabled digital asset management system for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in an external directory; and

store a copy of the digital asset from the external directory in a database with a link to the corresponding one or more digital assets in the first directory.

18. The article of claim 17 including machine-readable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine to provide, in response to a user request, access through a web-enabled user interface to the digital asset stored in the database.

19. The article of claim 18 wherein the first directory includes low resolution versions of digital assets, and the digital asset stored in the database is a high resolution version digital asset corresponding to one or more of the low resolution digital assets in the first directory.

20. The article of claim 19 including machine-readable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine to provide access through a web-enabled user interface to the high resolution digital asset stored in the database, in response to a user request for a high resolution version of a digital asset in the first directory.

21. The article of claim 17 wherein the external directory is located in a storage node registered on the web-based digital asset management system.

22. The article of claim 17 including machine-readable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine to perform the following for an entire job in the first directory:

search the first directory for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in the external directory; and

store a copy of the digital asset from the external directory in the database with a link to the corresponding one or more digital assets in the first directory.

23. The article of claim 17 including machine-readable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine to store, in the database, the file type and file size of the digital asset from the external directory.

24. The article of claim 17 including machine-readable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine, in response to a user'"'"'s selection through a web-enabled user interface of a file associated with a particular digital asset in the first directory, to present the corresponding file of the digital asset stored in the database to a browser for user download so that the particular digital asset in the file can be displayed through the user interface.