Patent ID: 6735741
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for linking to data from a document including a pointer to the data in a first storage device, comprising:processing a first request to access the data addressed by the pointer to data in the first storage device in the document; processing information on locations of alternate storage devices and data therein to determine whether a copy of the data in the first storage device is present in a second storage device, wherein the information on locations of the alternate storage devices and the data therein is embedded within the document and wherein the determination is performed using the information on locations of the alternate storage devices in the document; submitting a second request to access the copy of the data in the second storage device after determining that the information on locations of alternate storage devices and the data therein indicates that the second storage device includes the copy of the data; and returning the accessed copy of the data, received in response to the second request, to the first request.