Patent ID: 6993525

Claim:
A document database access device for accessing a document database to obtain an object document stored in the document database and requested from a WWW client, said document database in which a folder and the object document are identified by an identifier, while a name of the object document can be duplicated and the object document is managed by a folder hierarchy, said document database access device comprising: HTTP-request receiving means for receiving an HTTP request from the WWW client, said HTTP request including a URL corresponding to said object document; segment dividing means for separating the URL obtained from the HTTP request into segments and creating a URL segment table that associates a sequential segment number with a content of each segment; and object searching means for determining whether the segment shows the identifier, a name of the folder or the name of the object document, and for searching the object according to the URL segment table based on a determination result; wherein a last segment shows the name of the object document in the URL segment table.