Patent ID: 8260805

Claim:
A method for automatic creation of customer lists and virtual file listing displays comprising: providing a file management system, the file management system being associated with one or more parent applications; defining one or more virtual file listing display parameters; designating one or more data storage systems to be scanned, the one or more data storage systems including data representing files associated with the one or more parent applications, the data representing files associated with the one or more parent applications being stored in one or more origin physical memory locations in the one or more data storage systems; scanning the designated one or more data storage systems to identify the data representing files associated with the one or more parent applications; generating a client and/or project list for a user based, at least in part, on the scan of the data representing files associated with the one or more parent applications; generating one or more virtual file listing displays based, at least in part, on the scan of the data representing files associated with the one or more parent applications, the one or more virtual file listing displays including a listing of one or more of the identified files associated with the one or more parent applications, the one or more virtual file listing displays allowing a user to select and access the listed files associated with the one or more parent applications, the one or more virtual file listing displays being generated such that the data representing the listed files associated with the one or more parent applications remains in the origin physical memory locations in the one or more data storage systems; and displaying the one or more virtual file listing displays through the file management system.