A system, apparatus, and process creates a table of contents (TOC), including one or more table of contents (TOC) entries, to manage data in a hierarchical storage management system. Each TOC entry contains metadata describing the contents and attributes of a data object within an image, which is an...http://www.google.de/patents/US7693878?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7693878 - Hierarchical storage management using dynamic tables of contents and sets of tables of contents
