HIGH LEVEL STORAGE SERVICE FOR A DYNAMIC SET OF NETWORK DEVICES AND PROCESSES

摘要

A method and system for information storage service (100) that does not require client devices (104) to know the type or data organization of the centralized storage device(s) so that documents can be stored without the need to specify path or filenames, documents can be retrieved by a content acid/or attribute based searched, and search criteria can be used to create collections of documents that are subsets of those in the information storage service. Documents can be sent to the information storage service for storage only for specified lease periods, after which they can be automatically removed or made inaccessible. A client device can be registered for notification when a document meeting selected criteria is received at the information storage service, and documents can be selectively replicated at loosely connected information storage services that can go up and down independently of each other.