Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-28
2008-10-21
Breene, John E (Department: 2162)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07440971
ABSTRACT:
A network has a file system configured for providing a selected version of a first file to a client, having requested the file, based on detecting that the client has opened a second file having an identified relationship with the first file. Files are identified as having a relationship based on membership in a file group, wherein each file group identifies only one version of each file specified in the corresponding file group; hence, multiple file groups can identify files associated with respective versions of a file set. In response to determining the first file belongs to a file group, the file system identifies the version of the second file opened by the client, and selects the version of the first file to be provided to the client based on determining the file group associated with the version of the second file opened by the client.
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Toebes John
Turner Bryan C.
Walker Douglas Jay
Breene John E
Cisco Technology Inc.
Myint Dennis
Turkevich Leon R.
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