Patent ID: 7873603

Claim:
An archival computer system for receiving digital documents from document source computers, archiving such digital documents, and providing the digital documents to client computer systems, the archival computer system comprising: a document database; a supplemental digital media database; a document input device receiving digital documents from the document source computers, the digital documents including non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents, and supplemental media; an archival computer receiving the digital documents, and archiving data from the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents in the document database, and data from the supplemental media in the supplemental digital media database, the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents containing information identifying particular supplemental media as well as specifying how the supplemental media are to be used within a composite document including both the data within the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital document and the supplemental media; a server, upon request, outputting the composite document including data stored in the document database and the supplemental digital media database; wherein the supplemental digital media database includes a binary large objects field, and wherein the supplemental media are stored in the binary large objects field.