Patent ID: 6397231
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of generating a virtual document in a document management system comprising:issuing a request by an application of the document management system for a document; receiving the request by the document; sending a request from the document to a bit provider capable of performing read/write operations to retrieve or store content of the document; determining, by the bit provider, addresses of the content, wherein the content addresses are for more than one storage repository, and the content of the document is stored completely separate from the bit provider; retrieving, by the bit provider, via a read operation, the content located in the more than one storage repository, wherein each of the storage repositories storing content hold a sub-portion of the document content; combining the sub-portions of the content; presenting the combined sub-portions of the document content to a user, wherein the user perceives the combined sub-portions as a single document; and storing the contents of the document in the more than one storage repository via the bit-provider write operator.