Content publication system for supporting real-time integration and processing of multimedia content including dynamic data, and method thereof

• US 20040024812A1
• Filed: 05/01/2003
• Published: 02/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wisengine Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Wisengine Incorporated
• Inventors: Park, Chong Mok, Lee, Kook Hee
• Application Number:
  US10/415,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20040024812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A content publication system supporting real-time integration and processing of multimedia content including dynamic data is provided. The content publication system includes a repository having a content repository described by a predetermined internal expression, which is capable of integrating a plurality of static and dynamic content, in unit of containers, a converter object repository for storing output format conversion rules for different devices, and a media converter repository for converting multimedia data to be suitable for the characteristics of each device; and a service publication server for fetching a corresponding container from the content repository in response to a content request received from a web server, accessing dynamic content using dynamic content access information included in the fetched container, integrating the dynamic content with static content in real time converting the integrated content according to an output format conversion rule fetched from the converter object repository for a corresponding device, converting multimedia data using a multimedia converter, and transmitting the result of conversion to the web server for the delivery to the device. Accordingly, a service producer can utilize dynamic data from various sources without the burden of content conversion which is different depending on the type of users terminal, thereby easily providing comprehensive Internet services for users.

Claims

1. A content publication system supporting real-time integration and processing of multimedia content including dynamic data, characterized by comprising:

a repository comprising a content repository described by a predetermined internal expression, which is capable of integrating a plurality of static and dynamic content including multimedia data, in unit of containers, a converter object repository for storing output format conversion rules for different devices, and a media converter repository for storing media converters for various types of media content and converting multimedia data to be suitable for the characteristics of each device; and

a service publication server for fetching a corresponding container from the content repository in response to a content request received from a web server, accessing dynamic content using dynamic content access information included in the fetched container, integrating the dynamic content with static content in real time, converting the integrated content according to an output format conversion rule fetched from the converter object repository for a corresponding device, and when multimedia data is included in the fetched container, converting multimedia data to be suitable for the characteristics of the device and transmitting the result of conversion to the web server for the delivery to the device.

2. The content publication system of claim 1, wherein the service publication server comprises:

a content request API for receiving the content request from the web server and transmitting content corresponding to the content request to the web server;

a content transformation module for integrating the static content and the dynamic content which are included in the container corresponding to the content request from the content request API, converting the integrated content according to the output format conversion rule for the device, and transmitting the result of conversion to the content request API;

a repository content manager for fetching the container and the output format conversion rule from the repository;

a media conversion module for converting static and dynamic media content included in the container fetched by the repository content manager using a corresponding multimedia converter fetched from the media converter repository, and transmitting the result of conversion to the web server; and

a dynamic source integrator for accessing the dynamic content in real time using the dynamic content access information included in the container fetched by the repository content manager and integrating the dynamic content with the static content.

3. The content publication system of claim 2, wherein the content transformation module applies XML Stylesheet Language (XSL) rules as the output format conversion rule to convert the integrated content described in an XML document to each client device format, the Document Type Definition (DTD) for the XML document defines the common features of different markup languages such as WML, HDML, c-HTML, and HTML, and the XSL rules define conversion to each wireless markup language.

4. The content publication system of claim 2, wherein the repository content manager keeps the fetched container in a main memory in the form of a document object model (DOM) object in extensible markup language (XML).

5. The content publication system of claim 3, wherein the service publication server further comprises a container hash map module for receiving a container identifier and checking whether a corresponding DOM object has been loaded on a memory.

6. The content publication system of claim 1, wherein the service publication server further comprises a program publication function of receiving a program publication request from a service producer, fetching a corresponding container from the content repository, generating a tag for accessing dynamic content using dynamic content access information included in the fetched container, embedding the tag into static content, converting the static content including the tag according to output format conversion rules fetched from the converter object repository for different devices to generate programs for different device output formats, and storing the programs in the web server.

7. The content publication system of claim 5, wherein the service publication server comprises:

a content manipulation API for receiving the program publication request from the web server;

a content publication module for generating the tag for accessing the dynamic content using the dynamic content access information included in the container corresponding to the program publication request, embedding the tag into the static content, and converting the static content including the tag according to the output format conversion rules fetched from the converter object repository to generate documents for the different device output formats;

a repository content manager for fetching the container and the output format conversion rules from the repository;

a program generation module for converting each of the documents for the different device output formats into a common gateway interface (CGI) program;

a dynamic source integrator for accessing the dynamic content at a request of the CGI program and transmitting the dynamic content to the CGI program; and

a media conversion module for converting media content included in the dynamic content requested by the CGI program using a corresponding media converter fetched from the media converter repository and transmitting the result of conversion to the CGI program.

8. The content publication system of claim 6, wherein the repository content manager keeps the fetched container in a main memory in the form of a document object model (DOM) object in extensible markup language (XML).

9. The content publication system of claim 7, wherein the service publication server further comprises a container hash map module for receiving a container identifier and checking whether a corresponding DOM object has been loaded on a memory.

10. The content publication system of claim 7, wherein the content manipulation API further comprises a function of modifying a container value in the DOM object loaded on the memory, deleting a selected container from the repository, and generating a new container in the repository.

11. The content publication system of claim 1 or 5, wherein the service publication server further comprises a function of checking a users or communities right to access the content and recording a log about the content request from the web server.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the repository generated in step (a) further comprises a media converter repository for storing media converters for various types of media content, and

the method further comprises the steps of:

(e) converting media content included in the container fetched in step (b) using a corresponding media converter fetched from the media converter repository and storing the converted media content in a predetermined storage unit of the web server; and

(f) adding the converted media content stored in step (e) to the content to be transmitted to the web server in step (d) and providing the result of addition to the web server.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the integrated content generated in step (c) is described in an XML document and the conversion process of step (d) applies XML Stylesheet Language (XSL) rules as the output format conversion rule to convert the integrated document to each client device format.

12. A method for integrating and processing multimedia content including dynamic data in real-time, characterized by comprising the steps of:

(a) generating a repository comprising a content repository described by a predetermined internal expression, for integrating a plurality of static and dynamic content, in unit of containers, and a converter object repository for storing output format conversion rules for different devices;

(b) receiving a content request from a web server and fetching a container corresponding to the content request from the content repository;

(c) accessing one or more dynamic content using dynamic content access information included in the fetched container and integrating one or more dynamic content with static content in real time;

(d) converting the integrated content according to an output format conversion rule fetched from the converter object repository for a corresponding device and transmitting the converted content to the web server for delivery to the corresponding device.

15. A method of publishing a program supporting dynamic data processing, characterized by comprising the steps of:

(a) generating a repository comprising a content repository described by a predetermined internal expression, for integrating a plurality of static and dynamic content, in unit of containers, and a converter object repository for storing output format conversion rules for different devices;

(b) receiving a program publication request from a service producer and fetching a container corresponding to the content request from the content repository;

(c) generating a tag for accessing dynamic content using dynamic content access information included in the fetched container and embedding the tag into static content;

(d) converting the static content including the tag according to output format conversion rules fetched from the converter object repository for different devices and generating programs for different device output formats; and

(e) storing the programs in the web server for the delivery to different device output formats.