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A system, method, and program product for accessing or retrieving on a computer network the required software to process a file is disclosed. It is determined, when accessing a file, whether or not software required to process this file is already installed on the user's computing device, depending

A system, method, and program product for accessing or retrieving on a computer network the required software to process a file is disclosed. It is determined, when accessing a file, whether or not software required to process this file is already installed on the user's computing device, depending upon the type of the file. If the required software is not installed on the user's device, the address of a server from which this software can be downloaded or accessed through the network is extracted and decoded from the filename of the accessed file. A browser or file transfer program is launched on the user's computing device and a request for the required software package is sent from the user's computing device to the server corresponding to the decoded address from which it is downloaded or accessed. The software is then unpacked, if necessary, and installed so as to process the accessed file.

대표청구항 ▼

What is claimed is: 1. A method for processing a file having a filename in which an address is encoded for software required to process said file, said method comprising:receiving, by a computer system, a single filename of the file to be processed, the single filename including the encoded address

What is claimed is: 1. A method for processing a file having a filename in which an address is encoded for software required to process said file, said method comprising:receiving, by a computer system, a single filename of the file to be processed, the single filename including the encoded address for software required to process said file, the encoded address being encoded in a particular format, wherein a first format includes characters permitted for specifying a uniform resource locator and a second format excludes at least some characters permitted in the first format, and wherein the particular format in which the encoded address is encoded is the second format;extracting the encoded address from the single filename by the computer system, wherein the single filename further includes a primary filename of the software required to process said file separated by at least one control character from the encoded address;decoding the encoded address by the computer system, wherein the decoding includes:converting the encoded address extracted from the single filename into a decoded address formatted in the first format;the computer system accessing said software required to process said file using the decoded address; andprocessing said file by the computer system using the accessed software.