Patent ID: 7359897

Claim:
A document management and retrieval system comprising: a storage adapted for storing a plurality of electronic data records; digital identifier input means adapted for receiving a plurality of digital record identifiers; association means adapted for associating each received digital record identifier with at least one of a file storage location and an electronic data record in the storage; means adapted for receiving, from an associated user, digital record identifier selection data representative of at least one digital record identifier to be associated with the at least one of a first file storage location and a first electronic data record; means adapted for propagating the at least one digital record identifier to at least one of a second file storage location and a second electronic data record in accordance with at least one of a file move operation and a file copy operation; means adapted for receiving query data inclusive of a digital record identifier associated with a subset of electronic data records of interest in accordance with the received digital record identifier selection data; comparison means adapted for comparing the query data to a set of digital identifiers, each digital identifier being associated with a subset of electronic data records in the storage; means adapted for retrieving matched record data corresponding to a matched digital identifier resultant from a comparison completed by the comparison means; and output means adapted for communicating data representative of the matched record subset to an associated output.