US 20050076095A1
(19) United States
(12) Patent Application Publication (io) Pub. No.: US 2005/0076095 Al
Mathew et al. (43) Pub. Date: Apr. 7,2005
(54) VIRTUAL CONTEXTUAL FILE SYSTEM AND METHOD
(76) Inventors: Boban Mathew, Arlington, VA (US);
Thomas John, Austin, TX (US); Dagny
Evans, Alexandria, VA (US)
Correspondence Address:
BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & ZAFMAN
12400 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
SEVENTH FLOOR
LOS ANGELES, CA 90025-1030 (US)
(21) Appl. No.: 10/889,708
(22) Filed: Jul. 12, 2004
Related U.S. Application Data
(60) Provisional application No. 60/486,166, filed on Jul. 11, 2003.
Publication Classification
(51) Int. CI.7 G06F 15/16
(52) U.S. CI 709/217; 709/219
(57) ABSTRACT
A system is described for managing messages and/or documents ("documents") comprising: a document server to store a plurality ol documents and/or folders containing the documents; and a virtual contextual file system including a context mapping module to analyze a current context selected by a user at an access device to identify a subset of documents and/or folders stored on the document server associated with the context selected by the user, the context mapping module to additionally map the subset of documents and/or folders stored on the document server to the access device.
