Subscription-based dynamic content update

• US 20050119913A1
• Filed: 12/01/2003
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sami, Yafit, Schneider, Haim, Schejter, Marjorie, Lupovici, Shiri, Hornreich, Harry
• Application Number:
  US10/724,931
• Publication Number:
  US 20050119913A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A subscription-based dynamic content update system including a content update sub-system including a session manager operative to associate a web page currently active at a client and having at least one specialized content area with a subscription for content therefor, a subscription manager operative to create the subscription on a publish/subscribe server, an event buffer operative to store a content update received from the publish/subscribe server in response to a publication received from a content provider and in connection with the subscription, and a monitor operative to receive the content update from the content update sub-system and provide the content update for updating the specialized content area.

Claims

1. A subscription-based dynamic content update system comprising:

a content update sub-system comprising;

a session manager operative to associate a web page currently active at a client and having at least one specialized content area with a subscription for content therefor;

a subscription manager operative to create said subscription on a publish/subscribe server;

an event buffer operative to store a content update received from said publish/subscribe server in response to a publication received from a content provider and in connection with said subscription; and

a monitor operative to receive said content update from said content update sub-system and provide said content update for updating said specialized content area.

2. A system according to claim 1 and further comprising a server operative to:

host a web site including at least one software component for dynamically generating said specialized content area of said web page, and

provide said web page for display on a client computer.

3. A system according to claim 2 wherein said server is a portal server and wherein said web site is a portal.

4. A system according to claim 2 wherein said software component is a portlet.

5. A system according to claim 1 wherein said monitor maintains a persistent connection with said content update sub-system through which said monitor receives said content update.

6. A system according to claim 1 wherein said monitor periodically polls said content update sub-system for the existence of said content update.

7. A method for subscription-based dynamic content updating, the method comprising:

associating a web page currently active at a client and having at least one specialized content area with a subscription for content therefor;

receiving a content update from a content provider in connection with said subscription; and

providing said content update for updating said specialized content area.

8. A method according to claim 7 and further comprising:

creating said subscription on a publish/subscribe server; and

storing said content update received from said publish/subscribe server in response to a publication received from said content provider and in connection with said subscription.

9. A method according to claim 7 and further comprising:

dynamically generating said web page including said specialized content area; and

providing said web page and said monitor to a client computer.

10. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program comprising:

a first code segment operative to associate a web page currently active at a client and having at least one specialized content area with a subscription for content therefor;

a second code segment operative to receive a content update from a content provider in connection with said subscription; and

a third code segment operative to provide said content update for updating said specialized content area.

11. A computer program according to claim 10 and further comprising:

a fourth code segment operative to create said subscription on a publish/subscribe server; and

a fifth code segment operative to store said content update received from said publish/subscribe server in response to a publication received from said content provider and in connection with said subscription.