Patent ID: 7783596

Claim:
An extremely large scale computer system having an associated storage architecture and an asset catalog, the extremely large scale computer system using a computer-implemented immutable identification scheme tangibly stored on a computer-readable storage medium, the extremely large scale computer system comprising: a plurality of identifiers to reference, locate, and access a plurality of assets and/or a plurality of asset catalog entries stored in the asset catalog, wherein the plurality of identifiers include two types of identifiers to reference, locate, and/or access said assets and/or said asset catalog entries, the first identifier type being an asset identifier (AID) type and the second identifier type being a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) type, wherein each said AID is a multipart identifier, and wherein the identification scheme enables the asset catalog and the extremely large scale computer system to be scalable essentially without limitation and is configured to enable the assets to remain accessible over time regardless of the assets' format.