Patent ID: 8903763

Claim:
A method executed on a computer device for transferring document attributes, comprising: receiving, on an indexing system, a change to at least one attribute of a document stored in a content storage system, the document having a plurality of attributes, each attribute of the plurality of attributes describing a feature of the document, the document having an archival date that is initially set to a date that the document was originally stored in the content storage system; resetting the archival date of the document to a current date only in response to receiving the change to the at least on attribute; saving the date that the document was originally stored for future reference; setting a start date and an end date of the index transfer tool to the current date in response to receiving the change to the at least one attribute, wherein the index transfer tool integrates the indexing system with the content storage system; identifying the at least one attribute of the document that has been changed by using a three-way matching of the archival date, the start date, and the end date; and transferring only the identified changed attributes from the indexing system to the content storage system based on the three-way matching of the changed archival date with the start date and the end date of the index transfer tool.