Component models

• US 20060129906A1
• Filed: 10/19/2005
• Published: 06/15/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Semantic Labs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Decis E-Direct Incorporated
• Inventors: Wall, Llewellyn
• Application Number:
  US11/255,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20060129906A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system comprising a plurality of components comprising data and a component assembly engine. The component assembly engine performing the steps: (1) receiving one of the plurality of components, the one of the plurality of components comprising a root component, (2) determining, as a function of the root component, at least one child component of the root component, (3) receiving another of the plurality of components, the other of the plurality of components comprising the at least one child component, and (4) rendering content as a function of at least one of said at least one child component and said root component.

Claims

1. A system for assembling a document capable of being electronically rendered, said document being assembled from a plurality of components, said system comprising:

a component database 508 for persistent storage of components;

a request director 206 capable of determining the nature of an incoming request and directing the request responsive to said determination;

a storage unit capable of storing a pointer to a component; and

a component assembly engine connected to said component database 508, said request director 206, said storage unit, said component assembly engine 210 receiving a request from said request director 206 and assembling an electronically rendered document responsive to said request director 206.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a clickstream database for storing a user'"'"'s interaction history;

a metadata database 504 for storing product affinity information; and

an i/o processor 208 connected to said clickstream database, said metadata database 504, and said request director 206, said i/o processor 208 processing requests to modify a metadata database 504 or to download information from said metadata database 504; and

said component assembly engine further connected to said clickstream database, said metadata database 504, and said i/o processor 208, such that said component assembly engine 210 receiving the request from said request director 206 and assembles said electronically rendered document responsive to said request director.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the storage unit is further capable of storing a component hierarchy data structure, a processed queue data structure, and a feedback buffer data structure.

4. A method for assembling a web page comprising:

a) loading a root component;

b) loading a plurality of descendant components of said root component; and

c) processing the plurality of loaded components in reverse order from the order in which said root component and said descendant components were loaded.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein;

the loading the plurality of descendent components comprises loading all descendant components of said root component; and

the processing the plurality of loaded components comprises processing all the loaded components in reverse order from the order in which said root component and said descendant components were loaded.

6. A method as in claim 5 wherein at least one descendent component is a shadow component.

7. A method as in claim 4, wherein said step of processing comprises the step of adding said components to a processed queue, said processed queue providing an index of processed components for use during subsequent processing.

8. A data structure for use in electronically rendering a composite document comprising two or more component structures, each said component structure comprising:

a name element,

a data element,

an interface element,

a family element,

a structure element,

a properties element,

a code element,

an activation code element,

a rules element, and

a variables element.

9. A data structure as in claim 8 wherein at least one element of at least one component structure contains a pointer to a corresponding element of another component structure, whereby when said at least one element is processed, the information contained in said corresponding element is used in processing said at least one element.

10. A data structure as in claim 8 wherein at least one element of at least one component structure contains a pointer to the code element of said at least one component structure, whereby when said at least one component structure is processed, the contents of said at least one element is obtained by execution of code pointed to in said code element of said at least one component structure.

11. A data structure as in claim 8, wherein said components may reside on different internet accessible computer systems.

12. A data structure as in claim 8, wherein at least one of said two or more component structures comprises a shadow component structure, said shadow component structure containing code or rules respectively contained in the code element of said shadow component structure or the rules element of said shadow component structure, at least one of said shadow component code and said shadow component rules when executed causing said shadow component to be resolved into at least one component.