Patent ID: 8396938
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing direct access to distributed managed content comprising: receiving at a content management system from a remote system a request to perform an operation with respect to content managed by the content management system, wherein the content comprises a subset of the distributed managed content, and wherein the content management system tracks content version of the content managed by the content management system and whether the content is checked out, and wherein the content management system denies a subsequent request to retrieve the content when the content has been checked out; obtaining, by a processor, information usable to access the content required to respond to the request, wherein the information includes one or more content locators; providing in response to the request the one or more content locators, each content locator being usable to perform the requested operation through direct communication with an associated one of a plurality of content systems that is used to store the content; wherein the one or more content locators includes a URL; and in the event that it is not possible to perform the requested operation through direct communication with the associated one of the plurality of content systems that is used to store the content, performing the requested operation using the content management system, wherein the content required to respond to the request is accessed using the content management system from the associated one of the plurality of content systems that is used to store the content; wherein the associated one of the plurality of content systems includes an accelerated content server, and wherein the accelerated content server has no file system and uses the file system of the associated one of the plurality of content systems.