Patent ID: 7844596
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for locating files on a network, said method performed on a computer system and comprising: in response to receiving a request to alter a first name corresponding to a file within a file system to a second name, a file system manager executing on a processor of the computer system dynamically associating said second name to said first name and said file within a file system data structure, which structure comprises one or more alternate name fields associated with said file, including the first name and the second name; in response to an operation that destroys or deletes or removes the file associated with the first name, the file system manager dynamically updating a file destroyed field associated with the file within the file system data structure, wherein the file destroyed field is one field in addition to the one or more alternate name fields associated with said file within the file system data structure; in response to receiving a request for said file, wherein said request includes said first name, the file system manager searching said file system for said file based on said first name; in response to determining said search for said file based on said first name is not successful, the file system manager: wherein said searching said file system data structure for said file based on said second name further comprises: