Patent ID: 8082261

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: receiving, at a storage server comprising a processor and associated with a first protocol having a server domain name, a query for first attributes of a data structure using the first protocol, the data structure previously generated on the storage server and associated with second attributes of a second protocol, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are different; determining that the first attributes of the first protocol for the data structure do not exist, as the data structure was previously generated and associated with the second attributes of the second protocol; in response to the first attributes of the first protocol for the data structure not existing, determining whether the first attributes of the first protocol for the data structure can be mapped from the second attributes of the second protocol for the data structure; and in response to determining that the first attributes of the first protocol cannot be mapped from the second attributes of the second protocol, generating, by the storage server, a new name for the first attributes of the first protocol using the domain name of the server of the first protocol associated with the query as a domain portion of the new name, and a user identifier of the second attributes of the second protocol as a relative identifier of the new name.