Patent ID: 9609045
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. An information processing system comprising: a client device; an application virtualization file server communicatively coupled to the client device; one or more application servers communicatively each coupled to the application virtualization file server; and one or more storage apparatus communicatively coupled to the one or more application servers, wherein each of the one or more storage apparatus includes one or more logical units; wherein the application virtualization file server: receives a search request from the client device, wherein the search request includes a keyword, determines an indication of whether the search request specifies a particular application from a plurality of applications, generates search results by searching an index of data groups based on the indication and the keyword, wherein the search results include one or more search items and each search item includes a data item and a virtual identifier that specifies the particular application associated with each data item, determines a particular logical unit from the one or more logical units for each data item, filters the one or more search items from the search results by excluding search items where the particular logical unit is a copy destination volume, formats the search results according to data related items stored in a management table to generate formatted search results, and transmits the formatted search results to the client device; wherein the client device: receives the formatted search results, displays the formatted search results, and accesses one or more of the search items from the formatted search results using the particular application specified by the virtual identifier.