Patent ID: 6366916
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A flexibly adaptable asset management system for deploying asset management functions to a client application for browsing and manipulating assets, representing data, in a data store, the system comprising:an asset manager server disposed between the client application and the data store, the asset manager server including: at least one client adapter for providing interface functions between the client application and the asset manager server; at least one schema adapter for mapping the assets to the data stored in the data store, and for transferring the data to and from the data store in response to methods invoked in the client application, the methods being received by the at least one schema adapter through the at least one client adapter; and at least one object oriented class, wherein instances of the at least one object oriented class are used for transferring the data between the at least one schema adapter and the client application through the at least one client adapter, wherein, at least two of the client adapter, schema adapter and object oriented class are flexibly adaptable, thereby allowing the system to do one or more of handle different asset types, handle additional client applications and provide dynamic interfaces.