Patent ID: 9720806
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request to generate a first file that includes location information for a second file, wherein the second file is an existing file; generating a unique signature for each relevant location in the second file using at most a predetermined quantity of characters beginning at the relevant location in the second file, wherein the generated unique signature uniquely identifies the relevant location in the second file; obtaining data that identify one or more locatable strings in the second file and, for each locatable string from the one or more locatable strings in the second file, a location in the second file of the locatable string from the one or more locatable strings in the second file; determining, for each particular location of a locatable string from the one or more locatable strings in the second file, a corresponding generated unique signature; and generating the first file that includes, for each locatable string from the one or more locatable strings in the second file, the respective corresponding generated unique signature that uniquely identifies the particular location in the second file of the locatable string from the one or more locatable strings in the second file.