Patent ID: 6321254
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method for archiving and de-archiving data of a plurality of geographically mutually remote data sources, the method comprising;(a) coupling the data sources through a public, wide-area data transmission network to a central file-storage system external and geographically remote from the data sources;(b) buffering data transmitted over the network in interfaces connected between the network and each remote data source;(c) maintaining mutually separable storage fields in the central file-storage system by allocating separate storage fields to the data of every one of the remote data sources by a user filter coupled to the file-storage system to ensure that every user can transfer in the central file storage system only in his field; and(d) comparing an access authorization code transmitted from a remote data source to an access code stored at the central file-storage system and permitting access by a remote data source to the separate storage fields allocated to the data source in the central, file-storage system after comparison of the access authorization codes.