Patent ID: 7296038
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining two or more variants of a document, the content of each of the two or more variants of the document being contained in a respective one of two or more physical information objects (PHIOs), each context being defined by a tuplet of n attribute values for n attributes, where n>1; storing a set of m maps R receiving an entry context and a request for the document, the entry context being defined by a tuplet of n attribute values for the n attributes; defining a sequence of contexts that begins with the entry context from the set of m maps, each successive context in the sequence of contexts being derived from the preceding context in the sequence of contexts by application of one of the maps, the applied map in each derivation being the first of the maps that is not defined for the proceeding context in the sequence of contexts; selecting a PHIO having a context that occurs in the sequence of contexts before the contexts of any other of the two or more PHIOs; and providing the selected PHIO in response to the request for the document.