Appeal No. 2002-2205
Application 09/220,291
The disclosed invention pertains to a flexibly adaptable
asset management system with read-write capability features for
processing and manipulating assets. An asset of the invention is
defined to be a set of related data, or meta data, for a document
or an object and/or the actual data itself. The assets may
represent, for example, data in the form of text, full-motion
video, audio, graphics or images.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A flexibly adaptable asset management system for
deploying asset management functions to a client application for
manipulating assets, representing data, in a data store, and for
dynamically customizing and extending interface functions, the
system comprising:
an asset manager server disposed between the client
application and the data store, the asset manager server
including:
at least one client adapter for providing the interface
functions between the client application and the asset manager
server, and
at least one schema adapter for mapping the assets to the
data stored in the data store and for transferring the data to
and from the data store in response to methods invoked in the at
least one client adapter of the client application,
wherein, the at least one client adapter is flexibly
adaptable, thereby allowing the system to do one or more of
handle different asset types and handle additional client
applications.
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