Patent ID: 6826555
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A document-based database including a plurality of documents stored in a file storage system, the database comprising:a plurality of records stored in a machine-readable medium, each of the plurality of records comprising one or more of the plurality of documents not required to be stored in database tables, each of said plurality of records comprising a corresponding master document; an index file comprising: a header having a plurality of header entries and a body having a plurality of body entries, wherein at least one of the plurality of header entries has a header-to-body pointer associated therewith that points to a corresponding one of the plurality of body entries, at least one of the pointed to body entries is an initial body entry in a corresponding set of the body entries related to the header-to-body pointer pointing thereto, at least one of the plurality of body entries has a body-to-record-pointer associated therewith that points to one of the plurality of records, at least one of the plurality of header entries further has a corresponding header-identifier associated therewith and with a corresponding set of search criteria, and the index file is represented in an open format.