A Data Handling Architecture for a Prototype Federal Application
Chaitanya K. Baru, Reagan Moore, Arcot Rajasekar, Wayne Schroeder, Michael Wan, Richard L. Klobuchar, David M. Wade · 1998
The Distributed Object Computation Testbed (DOCT) Project is a collaboration led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The DOCT project was initiated with the objective of creating a testbed system for handling complex documents on geographically distributed data archives and computing platforms. The project focuses on technologies that apply to the information needs of federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense. In particular, the patent filing and amendment processing application of the USPTO is used as the prototype application for this testbed. This paper describes the DOCT system architecture and the USPTO application.