Method and system for storing and on demand loading of objects

Abstract

Abstract A method and system for interfacing an application program with a compound document storage system. The present invention provides an interface which an application program uses to manipulate compound documents. In a preferred embodiment, this interface is implemented in a multilayered architecture. The first layer provides methods which an application program uses to access a compound document using the functions of the second layer. The second layer maps requests to store data in the compound document to a storage format using the functions of the third layer. The third layer maps requests to write to a file to an arbitrary storage medium.

Inventors

• 👤 Robert G. Atkinson
• 👤 Andrew L. Bliss
• 👤 Philip J. Lafornara
• 👤 Philip Ljubicich
• 👤 Alexander G. Tilles
• 👤 Antony S. Williams

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