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Atomic and molecular documents
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Inventors: Edwards, Warren K.; Dourish, James P.; LaMarca, Anthony G.; Lamping, John O.; Petersen, Karin; Salisbury, Michael P.; Terry, Douglas B.; Thornton, James D.;
Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT)
Primary Examiner: Homere; Jean R.
Assistant Examiner: Wassum; Luke S
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & McKee, LLP
A molecular document comprised of atomic documents located in a document management system is provided. The molecular document is generated within the environment of a document management system which separates the content of a document from the properties which are used to describe the document. The document management system further includes bit providers which retrieve the content portion of the document and deliver it to the document. The bit provider of the present invention is a specialized bit provider having the capability of retrieving full-fledged DMS-type documents. Particularly, the atomic documents of the present invention are stand-alone fully functional DMS-type documents which become the content of the molecular document. A user of the DMS is unaware of the fact that a document retrieved is, in fact, a molecular document. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Prior to discussing the present invention in greater detail, it is believed a glossary of terms used in the description would be beneficial.
Therefore, the following definitions are set forth: Action: The behavior part of a property.
Active Property: A property in which code allows the use of computational power to either alter the document or effect another change within the document management system.
Arbitrary: Ability to provide any property onto a document.
Base Document: Corresponds to the essential bits of a document.
There is only one Base Document per document.
It is responsible for determining a document's content and may contain properties of the document, and it is part of every principal's view of the document.
Base Properties: Inherent document properties that are associated with a Base Document.
Bit Provider: A special property of the base document.
It provides the content for the document by offering read and write operations.
It can also offer additional operations such as fetching various versions of the document, or the encrypted version of the content.
Browser: A user interface which allows a user to locate and organize documents.
Collection: A type of document that contains other documents as its content.
Combined Document: A document which includes members of a collection and content.
Content: This is the core information contained within a document, such as the words in a letter, or the body of an e-mail message.
Content Document: A document which has content.
Distributed: Capability of the system to control storage of documents in different systems (i.
e.
, file systems, www, e-mail servers, etc.
) in a manner invisible to a user.
The system allows for documents located in multi-repositories to be provided to a principal without requiring the principal to have knowledge as to where any of the document's content is stored.
DMS: Document Management System Document: This refers to a particular content and to any properties attached to the content
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