Creation and browsing of content objects

• US 20070156633A1
• Filed: 12/31/2005
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sugita, Takayuki
• Application Number:
  US11/323,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20070156633A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Context objects are created and browsed. A computerized system includes a database, a log database, a log database analysis mechanism, and a context object-creation mechanism. The database is for storing content objects and context objects. Each context object represents a relationship between a first content object and a second content object. The log database is to store information regarding the content objects browsed by users within browsing sessions. The log database analysis mechanism is for analyzing the log database for browsing between each pair of content objects, in order to generate statistics regarding the browsing from a first content object of each pair to a second content object of the pair. The context object-creation mechanism then creates the objects based on the statistics generated by the log database analysis mechanism.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

creating a plurality of context objects, each context object representing a relationship from a first content object to a second content object;

storing the context objects within a database in which a plurality of content objects are also stored; and

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permitting a user to simultaneously browse the content objects and the context objects stored within the database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the context objects comprises, for each context object, comprises:

analyzing a log database for browsing between the first content object and the second content object by a plurality of users to generate one or more statistics regarding the browsing from the first content object to the second content object; and

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where the statistics regarding the browsing from the first content object to the second content object match a predetermined criteria, creating the context object representing the relationship from the first content object to the second content object.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein creating the context objects comprises, for each context object, further comprises initially:

for each of a plurality of users browsing the first content object and the second content object of the context object,

storing browsing status regarding browsing of the user to the first content object, within the log database; and

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storing browsing status regarding browsing of the user to the second content object, such that the user has browsed from the first content object to the second content object, within the log database.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the statistics regarding the browsing from the first content object to the second content object comprise:

a number of times the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to; and

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a last time the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the statistics regarding the browsing from the first content object to the second content object further comprises a score determined based on the number of times the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to and the last time the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the statistics regarding the browsing from the first content object to the second content object match the predetermined criteria where the score determined is greater than a predetermined threshold.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the context objects comprises, for each context object:

each time a selected second content object has been browsed to by each of a plurality of users after a selected first content object has been browsed to by the user, increasing a reference counter associated with browsing from the selected first content object to the selected second content object,

wherein a selected context object is created only after the reference counter is greater than a predetermined threshold, such that the reference counter is further associated with the selected context object.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, for a selected content object, updating any context object referencing the selected content object, in response to the selected content object having been modified.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein updating any selected context object referencing the selected content object comprises increasing a reference counter associated with the selected context object.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein permitting the user to simultaneously browse the content objects and the context objects stored within the database comprises:

permitting the user to perform a keyword search on both the content objects and the context objects stored within the database, in a same way as to both the content objects and the context objects; and

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displaying a list of matching content objects and matching context objects as to the keyword search.

11. The method of claim 10, permitting the user to simultaneously browse the content objects and the context objects stored within the database further comprises:

in response to a user selecting one of the matching context objects, determining whether the user has permission to browse the matching context object selected; and

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where the user has permission to browse the matching context object selected, displaying the matching context object selected to the user.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to deletion of a selected content object:

searching the database for any context object that references the selected content object; and

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for each context object that references the selected content object, archiving the context object such that the context object is no longer browsable by the user.

13. A computerized system comprising:

a database storing a plurality of content objects and a plurality of context objects, each context object representing a relationship between a first content object and a second content object;

a log database to store information regarding the content objects browsed by a plurality of users within browsing sessions;

a log database analysis mechanism to analyze the log database for browsing between each of a plurality of pairs of content objects to generate one or more statistics regarding browsing from a first content object of each pair of content objects and a second content object of the pair of content objects; and

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a context object-creation mechanism to create the content objects based on the statistics generated by the log database analysis mechanism.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the context object-creation mechanism is create each context object based on a score determined based on a number of times the second content object of the context object has been browsed to after the first content object of the context object has been browsed to, and a last time the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the context object-creation mechanism is further to update any context object referencing a selected content object that has been modified.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the context object-creation mechanism is further to archive any context object referencing a selected content object that has been deleted.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the database stores each context object in accordance with a data structure comprising:

a title representing the relationship between the first content object and the second content object represented by the context object;

identification of each of the first content object and the second content object, the relationship between which is represented by the context object;

a number of times the first content object has been browsed to after the second content object has been browsed to;

a first score determined at least based on the number of times the first content object has been browsed to after the second content object has been browsed to;

a number of times the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to; and

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a second score determined at least based on the number of times the second content object has been browsed to after the first content object has been browsed to.

18. The system of claim 13, further comprising a context object display mechanism to display a selected context object in response to a request from a user.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the context object display mechanism is to determine whether the user has permission to browse the selected context object, such that the context object-display mechanism is to display the selected context object only where the user has permission to do so.

20. An article of manufacture comprising:

a tangible computer readable medium; and

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means in the medium for creating a plurality of context objects, each context object representing a relationship from a first content object to a second content object, and for permitting a user to simultaneously browse a plurality of content objects and the plurality of context objects.