Patent ID: 6336115
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A file sharing system implemented on a system having a server system and a plurality of client systems connected to said server system via a network, said file sharing system comprising:a WWW server provided in said server system; a first storage unit, provided in said server system, storing files; a WWW-server-function extension unit, provided in said server system, operating in association with said WWW server to control said files based on respective file identifiers indicating said files; a WWW browser, provided in a client system which is one of said client systems, receiving one of said files and a corresponding one of the file identifiers indicating said one of said files from said server system; a second storage unit, provided in said client system, storing said one of said files; a WWW-browser-function extension unit, provided in said client system, operating in association with said WWW browser to activate an application to update said one of said files and to send the updated file and said corresponding one of the file identifiers to said server system, resulting in said updated file being stored in said first storage unit in said server system as a file having the same file identifier as said corresponding one of the file identifiers.