Patent ID: 9740693
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a computer system via a collection name, a persistent document collection comprising a group of documents across multiple libraries, the persistent document collection having a first attribute to identify an application to run on the computer system with which to share the group of documents, a second attribute to specify an amount of disk space measured in a multiple of bits or multiple of bytes allocated to the persistent document collection when the group of documents is being stored in a data store, and a third attribute to indicate a frequency for how often the persistent document collection is to be synchronized; retrieving, by the computer system via the application identified by the first attribute, the group of documents from the persistent document collection; modifying, by the computer system via the application identified by the first attribute, the group of documents by storing the group of documents in memory of the computer system and performing operations on the group of documents independently from an application that created the persistent document collection; and synchronizing, by the computer system via transmitting a control directive to the application that created the persistent document collection, the modified group of documents in the computer system with the persistent document collection in the data store.