AUTONOMIC UPDATING OF TEMPLATES IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20080243897A1
• Filed: 03/28/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Petri, John Edward
• Granted Patent: US 8,140,589 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A content management system (CMS) autonomically updates one or more templates based on characteristics of documents in the repository, and based on specified criteria in an autonomic template update policy. At an appointed time, the CMS finds a template in the repository, retrieves an autonomic template update policy corresponding to the template, and determines from characteristics of documents in the repository whether the criteria in the autonomic template update policy allows autonomically updating the template. If the criteria are met, the template is autonomically updated without intervention by a CMS administrator. The result is a CMS where templates autonomically change as the content in the repository changes.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory coupled to the at least one processor;

a repository residing in the memory, the repository including a plurality of documents and a plurality of templates;

a content management system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the content management system comprising;

an autonomic template update mechanism that selects one of the plurality of templates in the repository, reads a corresponding autonomic template update policy, analyzes corresponding documents in the repository, and if the corresponding documents in the repository satisfy the autonomic template update policy, autonomically updating the selected template according to at least one characteristic of the analyzed documents in the repository.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the corresponding autonomic template update policy specifies an element and corresponding conditions that, when satisfied by the at least one characteristic of the analyzed documents in the repository, cause the element in the selected template to be replaced with a link in the updated selected template.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise a minimum count of the element in the analyzed corresponding documents.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise a minimum reuse percentage of the element in the analyzed corresponding documents.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise fragment attribute conditions.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise template attribute conditions.

7. A computer-implemented method for autonomically updating a template in a content management system, the method comprising the steps of:

reading an autonomic template update policy corresponding to the template;

analyzing corresponding documents in the repository; and

if the corresponding documents in the repository satisfy the autonomic template update policy, autonomically updating the template according to at least one characteristic of the analyzed documents in the repository.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the corresponding autonomic template update policy specifies an element and corresponding conditions that, when satisfied by the at least one characteristic of the analyzed documents in the repository, cause the element in the template to be replaced with a link in the updated template.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise a minimum count of the element in the analyzed corresponding documents.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise a minimum reuse percentage of the element in the analyzed corresponding documents.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise fragment attribute conditions.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise template attribute conditions.

13. A method for deploying computing infrastructure, comprising integrating computer readable code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system perform the method of claim 7.

14. A computer-implemented method for autonomically updating a template in a content management system, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting the template from a plurality of templates in a repository;

reading an autonomic template update policy corresponding to the selected template;

analyzing corresponding documents in the repository that apply to the selected template and contain at least one fragment;

for each element defined in the autonomic template update policy, determining whether any fragments in the corresponding documents are suitable to replace each element in the selected template;

if a number of fragment references in the corresponding documents is greater than a specified minimum count of fragment references in the autonomic template update policy, and if a percentage of fragment reuse in the corresponding documents is greater than a specified minimum reuse percentage in the autonomic template update policy, and if fragment attribute conditions specified in the autonomic template update policy are satisfied by the corresponding documents, and if template attribute conditions specified in the autonomic template update policy are satisfied by the corresponding documents, and if the structural context of the corresponding documents matches a specified structural content in the autonomic template update policy, autonomically updating the selected template to include at least one link to at least one fragment in the corresponding documents.

15. An article of manufacture comprising:

(A) a content management system comprising;

an autonomic template update mechanism that selects one of the plurality of templates in the repository, reads a corresponding autonomic template update policy, analyzes corresponding documents in the repository, and if the corresponding documents in the repository satisfy the autonomic template update policy, autonomically updating the selected template according to at least one characteristic of the analyzed documents in the repository; and

(B) computer-readable media bearing the content management system.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 15 wherein the corresponding autonomic template update policy specifies an element and corresponding conditions that, when satisfied by the at least one characteristic of the analyzed documents in the repository, cause the element in the selected template to be replaced with a link in the updated selected template.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 16 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise a minimum count of the element in the analyzed corresponding documents.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 16 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise a minimum reuse percentage of the element in the analyzed corresponding documents.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 16 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise fragment attribute conditions.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 16 wherein the corresponding conditions comprise template attribute conditions.