US 6,983,290 B2 | ||
Apparatus and method for accessing resources | ||
Paul Winwood, Oxford (United Kingdom) | ||
Assigned to Software 2000 Ltd., (United Kingdom) | ||
Filed on Jul. 10, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/191,295. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 0119190 (GB), filed on Aug. 06, 2001. | ||
Prior Publication US 2003/0037057 A1, Feb. 20, 2003 | ||
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 707—104.1 | 14 Claims |
1. Data processing apparatus for retrieving data in accordance with received access requests including a protocol identifier
and a location identifier, said apparatus comprising:
a receiver for receiving access requests including a protocol identifier and a location identifier;
a plurality of protocol processing modules for retrieving data utilizing location identifiers received by said receiver, and
selection means for selecting from said protocol processing modules a processing module to process a received access request
on the basis of the said protocol identifier included in said received access request;
wherein at least one of protocol processing modules is operable to process location identifiers comprising resource identification
data and fixed predetermined identification data corresponding to a file, said at least one protocol processing module comprising:
monitoring means arranged to detect the storage of files in a file storage system;
means responsive to the monitoring means to store fixed predetermined identification data corresponding to a said file in
association with data identifying the location of storage of a file being stored;
conversion means for converting file identifiers into data identifying a storage location utilizing said data stored by said
responsive means; and
retrieval means for retrieving resource data stored in said file storage system utilizing said data identifying a storage
location identified by conversion of the file identifier of said location identifier by said conversion means and said resource
identification data.
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