Patent ID: 6804687
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for managing a file system comprising:providing a token action log as a data structure that contains user-extensible set of tokens, each token including a set of symbols; storing new entry in the token action log comprising: a) a new token as a set of symbols that together have no prior functional meaning within the file system, b) one or more user-customizable sets of actions associated with the new token, and, c) an indication of a specific event that is designated to trigger the one or more user-customizable actions; attaching the new token to one or more file-system entities such that the token is stored together with each attached file-system entity; detecting an event involving a file-system entity that has an attached token, which token is from the set of tokens previously stored in the token action log; identifying the attached token stored with the file-system entity involved in the detected event; retrieving from the token action log one or more actions are associated in the token action log with the identified token and the detected event; and executing the retrieved actions.