DYNAMIC PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION FROM A DATABASE

• US 20070299853A1
• Filed: 09/10/2007
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Everhart, Dan, Lachance, Scott, Dunn-Ballinger, Robert, Landon, Thomas, Knotz, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 7,962,844 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Systems and methods for electronic management can be configured so that content is stored apart from the information for formatting the content. A data structure for the content may be initially defined, and content items may be stored in the data structure. Formatting information may be stored separately from the content in the form of a template. To publish formatted content, the stored content may be merged with the template. Specialized tags may be included in the template to permit added publishing functionality. In this manner, the system can easily manage large volumes of content and deliver the content to a variety of specialized target devices.

Claims

1. An integrated and modular content and format handling publishing system comprising a computer network including various sites connected by communication links, and various corresponding storage devices having computer-readable code embodied therein, including the following program components:

(a) a content handling program component, comprising;

(i) a content definition editor that receives a content definition including one or more data types and one or more parameters for each data type, and being based on a list of content item properties having assigned IDs, positions and types and being generated for each property by selecting a property type and a property action;

(ii) a data structure generator that produces a content data structure, the content data structure corresponding to the content definition;

(iii) a content item editor that receives content item information, handles each said content item property in said content item property list, and provides the content item information for storage in the content data structure, and in connection with a same content item, the content definition editor and the content item editor are configured for implementation on a display on content definition and content editor screens, respectively, in separate network browser windows;

(b) a format handling program component, comprising a template editor that generates formatting information for the content item information and stores the formatting information separately from the content item information;

(c) a publisher program component that generates a formatted output based on a combination of the separately stored content item information and formatting information; and

(d) a publisher scheduler that controls when a particular content item is published by the publisher according to a set of predetermined publication criteria;

wherein the formatting information comprises extensible mark-up language (XML) fragments.