| 摘要 |
The invention concerns a system for managing a collection of RESOURCEs, which include downloadable data or physical objects, which are located at multiple geographic sites. The system is characterized by SERVERs (14,16) located at some, or all, of said sites, which serve personal computers (1). PROFILEs are stored in SERVERs (14,16), which contain data which is descriptive of RESOURCEs (3,4,6,15); The system furthert includes means for allowing a user of a SERVER (14,16) to view PROFILEs stored in other SERVERs (14,16) and means for allowing a user of a SERVER (14,16) to order that downloadable data stored in other SERVERs (14,16), to be delivered to the user's SERVER (14,16).Also, the system includes means for examining the downloaded data for indicia of the generating program which was utilized to create the RESOURCE and, if indicia is found, searching for said program. |
