Globalization management system and method therefor

• US 20020120762A1
• Filed: 12/06/2001
• Published: 08/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SDL PLC (RWS Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: SDL International America Incorporated (RWS Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: Cheng, Shang-Che, Pressman, Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 7,904,595 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A globalization management system (200) for managing resources of multiple interrelated data sources (1021, 1022, 1041, 1042, 1000, 1200, 1002, 1202) corresponding to a plurality of sites (102, 104, 106) accessed through a communications network (20) is provided. The globalization management system (200) includes a plurality of target application interfaces (222) respectively coupled to the interrelated data sources through the communications network. Each target application interface (222) includes systems (212, 214, 216, 218) for converting a protocol of the respective data source to a predetermined protocol, and the predetermined protocol to the protocol of the respective data source. The globalization management system (200) further includes a global management engine (100) coupled to the plurality of target application interfaces (222). The global management engine (100) includes a site-to-site relationship manager, a system for reading data representing current content from the interrelated data sources, a system for comparing the data representing current content with data representing prior content, and a project manager for transferring the data identified as a content change to at least one of the interrelated data sources that has been identified as a subscriber site.

Claims

1. A globalization management system for managing resources of multiple interrelated data sources corresponding to a plurality of sites accessed through a communications network, comprising:

a plurality of target application interfaces, each of said target application interfaces being respectively coupled to at least one of the interrelated data sources through the communications network, each of said target application interfaces including means for converting a protocol of the respective data source to a predetermined protocol and said predetermined protocol to said protocol of the respective data source; and

,

a global management engine coupled to said plurality of target application interfaces, said global management engine communicating with each of said target application interfaces with said predetermined protocol, said global management engine including (a) a site-to-site relationship manager for identifying provider and subscriber relationships, language translation, and localization requirements between the plurality of sites, (b) means for reading data representing current content from the interrelated data sources identified as provider sites by said site-to-site relationship manager, (c) means for comparing said data representing current content with data representing prior content to identify content changes at a respective provider site, and (d) a project manager for transferring said data identified as a content change by said comparing means to at least one of said interrelated data sources identified as a subscriber site by said site-to-site relationship manager.

2. The globalization management system as recited in claim 1 where said project manager includes means for transferring said data identified as a content change by said comparing means to a language translation site through the communications network responsive to said site-to-site relationship manager identifying said content change data as requiring language translation, said project manager including means for receiving data from said language translation site and transferring said received data to at least one of said interrelated data sources identified as subscriber site.

3. The globalization management system as recited in claim 1 where said project manager includes means for localizing said data identified as a content change by said comparing means responsive to said site-to-site relationship manager identifying said content change data as requiring localization.

4. The globalization management system as recited in claim 1 where said global management engine is implemented on a server coupled to the communications network.

5. The globalization management system as recited in claim 1 where said current content from the interrelated data sources is stored in a repository selected from the group consisting of a database system, a file system, a content management system and a combination thereof.

15. The method as recited in claim 1 where said step of identifying includes the step of identifying site content requiring copying of said content for a predetermined site content subscriber with a HIDE flag associated therewith.

6. A method of managing resources of a multiplicity of interrelated data sources corresponding to a plurality of sites accessed through a communications network, comprising the steps of:

analyzing the multiplicity of interrelated data sources to identify architecture, protocol, language and localization requirements;

establishing at least one target application interface for transferring data to and from said multiplicity of interrelated data sources;

establishing a site-to-site interrelationship model identifying provider and subscriber relationships between said multiplicity of interrelated data sources;

periodically reading data representing site content from said multiplicity of interrelated data sources identified as site content providers in said model;

comparing said periodically read data with data representing predetermined site content to identify data representing content changes; and

,

transferring said identified data representing changed content to at least one of said multiplicity of interrelated data sources identified as a site content subscriber in said model.

7. The method as recited in claim 6 where said step of transferring said identified data is preceded by the step of processing said identified data representing changed content by transforming said changed content from a first language to a second language.

8. The method as recited in claim 7 where said step of translating includes the step of transferring said identified data representing changed content to a translation portal through the communications network.

9. The method as recited in claim 6 where said step of transferring said identified data is preceded by the step of processing said identified data representing changed content by localizing said changed content for consistency with said localization requirements.

10. The method as recited in claim 6 where said step of establishing a site-to-site interrelationship model includes the step of identifying for a respective one of said interrelated data sources those interrelated data sources to receive said changed content as a subscriber thereto, and those interrelated data sources from which said respective interrelated data source receives changed content as a subscriber therefrom.

11. The method as recited in claim 6 where said step of establishing a site-to-site interrelationship model includes the step of identifying for a respective one of said interrelated data sources said data representing site content requiring an action selected from the group consisting of transformation and migration of said content for a predetermined site content subscriber.

12. The method as recited in claim 11 where said step of identifying includes the step of identifying site content requiring localization of said content for a predetermined site content subscriber.

13. The method as recited in claim 11 where said step of identifying includes the step of identifying site content requiring language translation of said content for a predetermined site content subscriber.

14. The method as recited in claim 11 where said step of identifying includes the step of identifying site content requiring copying of said content for a predetermined site content subscriber.