Patent ID: 7392243
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment, a method comprising: accessing a hierarchically arranged data file containing hierarchically arranged data, the hierarchically arranged data including a plurality of data elements, at least some of the data elements containing one or more nested attribute name/value pairs; automatically modifying the accessed hierarchically arranged data file to configure the accessed hierarchically arranged data file for more efficient comparison to data from other versions of the hierarchically arranged data file, the accessed hierarchically arranged data file modified by adding a unique identifier to at least one of the data elements within the hierarchically arranged data of the hierarchically arranged data file, including: storing the modified data file, including any nested unique identifier attribute name/value pairs, for subsequent access so that any changes to the data file can be more efficiently detected when data from the modified data file is compared to data from another version of the data file.