Patent ID: 8768983

Claim:
A computer implemented method for dynamically configuring a document sharing system, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving a first request to add a new image file to a business rules component in the document sharing system including a content manager storage and a document gateway server that has a document gateway storage of which the business rules component is a part, wherein the first request comprises the new image file to be added to the business rules component; examining the new image file using logical optical character recognition to extract metadata about the new image file from the new image file; responsive to extracting the metadata from the new image file, identifying a configuration file; adding the extracted metadata from the new image file to the identified configuration file; saving the identified configuration file as a new configuration file, wherein the new configuration file is stored in the business rules component; using the new configuration file to access files without restarting or recoding the document sharing system; receiving a second request to add a business node to a business rules component in the document sharing system, wherein the request comprises business node metadata; identifying the business node metadata within the second request in order to create a new front-end adaptor and a new back-end adaptor, wherein the business node metadata identifies a location within a network that captures data for the network, the new front-end adaptor being a data source that uploads an image file to a watched folder of the document gateway storage of the document gateway server; creating the new front-end adaptor; and creating the new back-end adaptor, wherein the new back-end adaptor detects the image file has been uploaded by to the watched folder, and responsively processes the image file and stores the image file as processed to a content manager storage to which the new back-end adaptor is connected, wherein the document gateway server is not directly connected to the content manager storage but rather is indirectly connected to content manager storage via the new back-end adaptor, the new front-end adaptor and the new back-end adaptor each directly connected to the document gateway server, the new back-end adaptor not being able to upload any image file to the watched folder, the new front-end adaptor not being able to process any image file that has been uploaded to the watched folder.