MIGRATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT VERSION CONTENTS AND VERSION METADATA AS A COLLECTION WITH A SINGLE OPERATION

• US 20110239231A1
• Filed: 03/23/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Watson, Thomas J., Brown, Jay A.
• Application Number:
  US12/730,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20110239231A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

Provided are techniques for identifying an electronic document having at least two document versions to be migrated, copying document version contents and version metadata of each of the at least two document versions into a collection for transmission to a destination electronic repository, and sending the collection using a migration Application Programming Interface (API) call to the destination electronic repository with a single operation.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying an electronic document having at least two document versions to be migrated;

copying document version contents and version metadata of each of the at least two document versions into a collection for transmission to a destination electronic repository; and

sending the collection using a migration Application Programming Interface (API) call to the destination electronic repository with a single operation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the migration API call results in activation of one Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to the destination electronic repository.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the collection in batch mode.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the collection at the destination electronic repository; and

storing the document version contents and the version metadata separately.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying at least two electronic documents to be migrated; and

copying the document version contents and the version metadata of at least two document versions of each of the at least two electronic documents into the collection for transmission to the destination electronic repository.

6. A system, comprising:

hardware logic performing operations, the operations comprising;

identifying an electronic document having at least two document versions to be migrated;

copying document version contents and version metadata of each of the at least two document versions into a collection for transmission to a destination electronic repository; and

sending the collection using a migration Application Programming Interface (API) call to the destination electronic repository with a single operation.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the migration API call results in activation of one Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to the destination electronic repository.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating the collection in batch mode.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the collection at the destination electronic repository; and

storing the document version contents and the version metadata separately.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying at least two electronic documents to be migrated; and

copying the document version contents and the version metadata of at least two document versions of each of the at least two electronic documents into the collection for transmission to the destination electronic repository.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed by a processor on a computer causes the computer to:

identify an electronic document having at least two document versions to be migrated;

copy document version contents and version metadata of each of the at least two document versions into a collection for transmission to a destination electronic repository; and

send the collection using a migration Application Programming Interface (API) call to the destination electronic repository with a single operation.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the migration API call results in activation of one Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to the destination electronic repository.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program when executed by the processor on the computer causes the computer to:

generate the collection in batch mode.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program when executed by the processor on the computer causes the computer to:

receive the collection at the destination electronic repository; and

store the document version contents and the version metadata separately.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program when executed by the processor on the computer causes the computer to:

identify at least two electronic documents to be migrated; and

copy the document version contents and the version metadata of at least two document versions of each of the at least two electronic documents into the collection for transmission to the destination electronic repository.