Computer System for Storing and Managing Digital Assets Using Virtual Repositories for Flexible Redirection of References

摘要

A digital asset management system performs path translations for files referenced using virtual file system pathnames translated to physical file system pathnames by intercepting an original file access request from an application, resolving to a physical pathname, passing a modified file access request to an operating system that corresponds to the original file access request with the physical pathname in place of the virtual pathname, receiving a response from the operating system, the response being to the modified file access system, and passing the response to the application that made the original file access request. Mapping from an original file access request from a virtual pathname to a physical pathname can be performed using a path resolution engine, using one or more view datasets, that can serve different file access requests using different views. View datasets can be independent of the virtual file system pathnames used.