System and method for managing requests to document archives, routing requests and delivering requests to a variety of channels or delivery mechanisms

摘要

An Archive Interface Manager (AIM) can provide a common interface between the image delivery channels and image archives. AIM handles requests and fulfillment of queries and images between the image delivery channels and the image archive/s. AIM processes requests for documents to the appropriate document archive/s and fulfills and returns a list of items that matches the request and subsequently, the requested item to the requestor. AIM processes the request, searching multiple archives, going to the appropriate place of record, combining the hit list with all the items and returning a single hit list with the matched request. AIM also allows the requestor to query and retrieve items without seeing a hit list such as in a request for a single item.