Patent ID: 6701314
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for automatically cataloguing documents located in multiple heterogeneous repositories, the system comprising:a scanning tool for scanning the multiple heterogeneous repositories to collect keywords for the documents located therein; a keyword index to the documents built using the collected keywords; a mapping toolfor mapping the documents using the keyword index to one or more classes, each of the one or more classes including keywords representative of that class; and a computing device for creating metadata indicative of each of the documents as defined by each of the documents' keywords and one or more classes and cataloguing each of the documents in an integrated library according to the metadata in a meta-index, wherein the meta-index retains the characteristics of each of the multiple heterogeneous repositories as applied to each of the documents such that a user may access one or more of the documents within the multiple heterogeneous repositories utilizing the meta-index; and further wherein the characteristics of the multiple heterogeneous repositories are transparent to the user when one or more of the documents are accessed using the meta-index.