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System and method for managing filesystem objects in a multilingual distributed environment
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1999-07-06
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Granted: 2002-11-12
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Expires: 2019-07-06
Abstract
Abstract System and method aspects for filesystem management in a multilingual distributed computer environment are described. A system includes at least one server system for storing filesystem objects. A remote system is further included for remotely performing filesystem management operations on the filesystem objects of the at least one server system. At least one client system is provided for the at least one server system to support remote access to the filesystem objects by the remote system through a client agent, the client agent providing Unicode encoding of filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the at least one server system to ensure conversion of filesystem objects to a universal translation form, wherein proper recognition and management of filesystem objects occur in the remote system of the multilingual distributed computer environment.
Inventors
- 👤 David Taiwai Kwan
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 07:49
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/10; G06F16/14; G06F16/148; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 23
Claim 1
Independent Claim
130 words
A system for filesystem management in a multilingual distributed computer environment, the system comprising: at least one server system for storing filesystem objects; a remote system for remotely performing filesystem management operations on the filesystem objects of the at least one server system; and at least one client system provided for the at least one server system for supporting remote access to the filesystem objects by the remote system through a client agent, the client agent providing Unicode encoding of names of filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the at least one server system to ensure conversion of the names of the filesystem objects to a universal translation form, wherein proper recognition and management of filesystem objects occur in the remote system of the multilingual distributed computer environment.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
130 words
A system for filesystem management in a multilingual distributed computer environment, the system comprising: at least one server system for storing filesystem objects; a remote system for remotely performing filesystem management operations on the filesystem objects of the at least one server system; and at least one client system provided for the at least one server system for supporting remote access to the filesystem objects by the remote system through a client agent, the client agent providing Unicode encoding of names of filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the at least one server system to ensure conversion of the names of the filesystem objects to a universal translation form, wherein proper recognition and management of filesystem objects occur in the remote system of the multilingual distributed computer environment.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
20 words
The system of claim 1 wherein the remote system accesses the at least one client system from a browser interface.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
The system of claim 2 wherein the at least one client system provides a filesystem management interface to the remote system in response to the access.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
The system of claim 3 wherein the remote system selects a filesystem management operation from the filesystem management interface.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
16 words
The system of claim 3 wherein the filesystem management interface is provided as a JAVA applet.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one client system and the remote system operate in accordance with languages having differing local character sets.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
29 words
The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one client system accesses the filesystem objects utilizing application program interfaces (APIs) appropriate for the at least one server system.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
The system of claim 7 wherein the client agent provides string parameters for the APIs in a local character set of the at least one server system.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
71 words
A method for remote, distributed filesystem management in a multilingual computing environment, the method comprising: establishing communication between a filesystem via a filesystem agent and a remote system to select filesystem management operations by the remote system; and performing a selected filesystem management operation through the filesystem agent with Unicode encoding of names of the filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the filesystem for the selected filesystem management operation.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
71 words
A method for remote, distributed filesystem management in a multilingual computing environment, the method comprising: establishing communication between a filesystem via a filesystem agent and a remote system to select filesystem management operations by the remote system; and performing a selected filesystem management operation through the filesystem agent with Unicode encoding of names of the filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the filesystem for the selected filesystem management operation.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 9 wherein establishing communication further comprises accessing the filesystem by inputting a machine name and port number in a universal resource command line of a browser interface on the remote system.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
29 words
The method of claim 10 wherein establishing communication further comprises providing an applet for the filesystem management operations from the filesystem on the browser interface of the remote system.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of claim 9 wherein the step of performing further comprises accessing filesystem objects of the filesystem with the filesystem agent via application programming interfaces (APIs).
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 12 further comprising translating string parameters from Unicode into a local character set for the APIs.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
72 words
A method for filesystem management in a multilingual, distributed environment, the method comprising the steps of: querying a filesystem agent from a remote system of the distributed environment to perform a filesystem management operation; accessing a filesystem through the filesystem agent for the filesystem management operation; and utilizing Unicode encoding for filesystem object data, including names of filesystem objects, transferred during the filesystem management operation between the remote system and the filesystem.
Claim 17
Independent Claim
72 words
A method for filesystem management in a multilingual, distributed environment, the method comprising the steps of: querying a filesystem agent from a remote system of the distributed environment to perform a filesystem management operation; accessing a filesystem through the filesystem agent for the filesystem management operation; and utilizing Unicode encoding for filesystem object data, including names of filesystem objects, transferred during the filesystem management operation between the remote system and the filesystem.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 14 wherein accessing further comprises communicating with the filesystem through operating system application programming interfaces (APIs) of the filesystem.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 15 wherein communicating further comprises providing parameters for the APIs in a local character set when required by the APIs.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
39 words
The method of claim 16 further comprising converting filesystem object data being passed between the remote machine and the filesystem from the local character set to Unicode and from Unicode to the local character set via the filesystem agent.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 14 further comprising selecting the filesystem management operation from a JAVA applet provided by the filesystem to the remote system.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
75 words
A computer readable medium containing program instructions for supporting remote, distributed filesystem management in a multilingual computing environment comprising: providing communication between a filesystem via a filesystem agent and a remote system to select filesystem management operations by the remote system; and performing a selected filesystem management operation through the filesystem agent with Unicode encoding of names of the filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the filesystem for the selected filesystem management operation.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
75 words
A computer readable medium containing program instructions for supporting remote, distributed filesystem management in a multilingual computing environment comprising: providing communication between a filesystem via a filesystem agent and a remote system to select filesystem management operations by the remote system; and performing a selected filesystem management operation through the filesystem agent with Unicode encoding of names of the filesystem objects passed between the remote system and the filesystem for the selected filesystem management operation.
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