METHOD FOR PROVIDING A FLAT VIEW OF A HIERARCHICAL NAMESPACE WITHOUT REQUIRING UNIQUE LEAF NAMES

摘要

A set of flat identifiers are received, and a locality of reference cue determined. A cache is searched to locate an association including the combination of the set of flat identifiers and the locality of reference cue. If such an association is found in the cache, the hierarchical object(s) associated with that combination are used first in attempting to map the set of flat identifiers onto a hierarchical namespace.