Patent ID: 9348978
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by one or more processors configured to perform the method, comprising: identifying a piece of content; assigning one or more content identifiers to the piece of content; generating a unique instance identifier for the piece of content, the unique instance identifier unique to a particular copy of the piece of content and the one or more content identifiers are assigned to all copies of the piece of content, the unique instance identifier constructed based on a pathname for the particular copy of the piece of content and the pathname including an inode for the particular copy of the piece of content; providing content metadata and instance metadata to the piece of content; and recording the one or more content identifiers, the instance identifier, the content metadata, and the instance metadata in a database for subsequent traceability of the piece of content, wherein a total number of backlinks for any given piece of content is used for ranking that given piece of content, and when an imported different piece of content from an external system is detected performing a search and identifying a percentage of content matches for search results from the search as ancestors for the different piece of content, each ancestor identified as an unconfirmed ancestor to the different piece of content.