Patent ID: 6421713
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer program product recorded on computer readable medium for transferring a document from an interlocked computer system (CW1-CW5) to an interrogation system, in which the document is stored on a computer in the interlocked computer system and/or on a computer in a computer network, while the interlocked computer is linked to the interrogation system and the computer network via a data link, the product comprising:a) Computer readable means for inputting a document-address (URL) for down-loading of a document from a computer (CW1; CW3) of an interlocked computer system to an interrogation system; b) Computer readable means for sending the address (URL) to an allocated computer (CW1; CW3) in the interlocked computer system; c) Computer readable means for determining from the address by application of a HASH function of a specific computer in the interlocked computer system (CW4); d) Computer readable means for checking with the computer specified in stage (c) (CW4) for the presence of address information items, whether the document requested is stored on any computer in the interlocked system; e) if address information items for the document requested are available: aa) Computer readable means for initiating a transfer of the document requested from this computer to the interrogation system; f) if no address information items are available: aa) Computer readable means for down-loading the document requested from a computer in the computer net-work onto a computer (CW1) in the interlocked computer system; bb) Computer readable means for transferring the document to the interrogation system; cc) Computer readable means for determining from the address (URL) by application of a HASH function of a specified computer (CW4) in the interlocked computer system; and dd) Computer readable means for storing the document address (URL) and the computer address (CW1) where this document is stored, in the computer as in stage (cc).