System and method for portal page layout

• US 20030110448A1
• Filed: 10/24/2002
• Published: 06/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Patadia, Jalpesh, Griffin, Philip B., Breeden, Timothy, Haut, John, Willcox, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 7,472,342 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/513
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1012 to domains
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1015 to users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1064 Restricting content processing at operating system level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1073 Conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1076 Revocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/18 : Delegation of network management function, e.g. customer network management [CNM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 : comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0884 : by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity vis-à-vis an authentication entity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 : Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 : for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 : specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 : Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 : Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2871 : Implementation details of single intermediate entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 : User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 : involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 : Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 : Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 : Database or file accessing
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• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 : Recoverability
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 : Version management

Abstract

A system and method for describing a portal page, comprising, defining a placeholder on a template, associating at least one portlet with the placeholder, and wherein the template can be customized for least one of a group and a user.

Claims

1. A method for describing a portal page, comprising:

defining a placeholder on a template;

associating at least one portlet with the placeholder; and

wherein the template can be customized for least one of a group and a user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the portal page can be described with more than one template.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the template can have more than one placeholder.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the template is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) table and the placeholder is a cell in the table.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the template can be created and edited in a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editor.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein:

customization includes at least one of determining the location of the at least one portlet on the template, removing the at least one portlet from the template, and adding a new portlet to the template.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the template and the at least one portlet can be persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating at least one entitlement with the at least one portlet.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein:

the at least one entitlement includes at least one rule to associate a role with a user.

10. A method for describing a portal page, comprising:

defining a template, the template having a placeholder;

associating at least one portlet with the placeholder; and

wherein the template can be customized for least one of a group and a user.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein:

the portal page can be described with more than one template.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein:

the template can have more than one placeholder.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein:

the template is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) table and the placeholder is a cell in the table.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein:

the template can be created and edited in a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editor.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein:

customization includes at least one of determining the location of the at least one portlet on the template, removing the at least one portlet from the template, and adding a new portlet to the template.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein:

the template and the at least one portlet can be persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

associating at least one entitlement with the at least one portlet.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein:

the at least one entitlement includes at least one rule to associate a role with a user.

19. A method for rendering a portal page, comprising:

selectively associating at least one portlet with a placeholder in a customizable template; and

wherein the association is based on evaluation of at least one entitlement.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein:

the portal page can be rendered with more than one template.

21. The method of claim 19 wherein:

the template can have more than one placeholder.

22. The method of claim 19 wherein:

the template is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) table and the placeholder is a cell in the table.

23. The method of claim 19 wherein:

the template can be created and edited in a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editor.

24. The method of claim 19 wherein:

customization includes at least one of determining the location of the at least one portlet on the template, removing the at least one portlet from the template, and adding a new portlet to the template.

25. The method of claim 19 wherein:

the template and the at least one portlet can be persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

26. The method of claim 19 wherein:

selectively associating includes evaluating at least one entitlement.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein:

the at least one entitlement includes at least one rule to associate a role with a user.

28. A system for rendering a portal page, comprising:

a portal manager to selectively bind at least one portlet to a template;

a client to accept the bound template from the portal manager; and

a rules engine coupled to the portal manager to determine which of the at least one portlets are selectively bound.

29. The system of claim 28 wherein:

the portal page can be rendered with more than one template.

30. The system of claim 28, further comprising:

a placeholder, wherein the at least one portlet is associated with the placeholder.

31. The system of claim 30 wherein:

the template is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) table and the placeholder is an HTML table cell.

32. The system of claim 28 wherein:

the template can be created and edited in a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editor.

33. The system of claim 28 wherein:

the template and the at least one portlet definition can be persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

34. The system of claim 28, further comprising:

the rules engine evaluates at least one entitlement.

35. The system of claim 34 wherein:

the at least one entitlement includes at least one rule to associate a role with a user.

36. A method for describing a portal page, comprising:

creating a second template based on a first template; and

wherein the second template customizes the first template; and

wherein the second template describes the portal page.

37. The method of claim 36 wherein:

customization includes at least one of determining the location of at least one portlet on the second template, removing the at least one portlet from the second template, and adding a new portlet to the second template.

38. The method of claim 36 wherein:

the first template has at least one placeholder; and

wherein the second template has at least one placeholder.

39. The method of claim 36 wherein:

at least one of the first template and the second template is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) table.

40. The method of claim 36 wherein:

at least one of the first template and the second template can be created and edited in a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editor.

41. The method of claim 36 wherein:

the first template and the second template can be persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

42. The method of claim 36, further comprising:

associating at least one entitlement with the at least one portlet.

43. The method of claim 42 wherein:

the at least one entitlement includes at least one rule to associate a role with a user.

44. A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a processor cause a system to:

define a placeholder on a template;

associate at least one portlet with the placeholder; and

wherein the template can be customized for least one of a group and a user.

45. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

the portal page can be described with more than one template.

46. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

the template can have more than one placeholder.

47. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

the template is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) table and the placeholder is a cell in the table.

48. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

the template can be created and edited in a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editor.

49. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

customization includes at least one of determining the location of the at least one portlet on the template, removing the at least one portlet from the template, and adding a new portlet to the template.

50. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

the template and the at least one portlet can be persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

51. The machine readable medium of claim 44, further comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

associate at least one entitlement with the at least one portlet.

52. The machine readable medium of claim 44 wherein:

the at least one entitlement includes at least one rule to associate a role with a user.