Method and System for Modeling of System Content for Businesses

• US 20090106779A1
• Filed: 01/31/2008
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Scheevel, Mark, Collins, Jeffrey M., Tulkoff, Michael C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,510,761 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/24 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method and system of managing content at a network site can allow easier use by business users. A higher level of abstraction can be used to allow business users to create their own objects that may reference or contain other objects or records as managed by a content management system. Business users do not have to learn programming code in order to work those objects, which are content types. A graphical user interface (“GUI”) can be used to help the business users to create, modify, and delete content types. The GUI and the ability for business users to the create content types greatly shortens the time between receiving software to operate a network site and launching content at that network site.

Claims

1. A method of managing content at a network site comprising:

generating a content type, wherein;

generating is performed by using an application programming interface;

the application programming interface provides access to an application services layer; and

the application services layer overlies a content management system; and

instantiating a data object from the content type.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating is performed using a graphical user interface that is coupled to the application programming interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the content type comprises specifying attributes.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein generating the content type comprises specifying a workflow for the data object.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein generating the content type comprises specifying an access control.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the attributes comprise an attribute name understood by business users, an XML name, a variable type, and a widget.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the content type is based on a referenced model or a containment model.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising saving the content type, wherein saving the content type automatically generates an XML definition of the content type.

9. A data processing system readable medium having code embodied therein, the code comprising:

an instruction for reading information for a content type; and

an instruction for generating a structured definition of the content type using the information.

10. The data processing system readable medium of claim 9, wherein the information is received from a user at a different computer.

11. The data processing system readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instruction for generating comprises an instruction for serializing the information.

12. The data processing system readable medium of claim 11, wherein the structured definition is an XML document.

13. The data processing system readable medium of claim 11, wherein the information includes an attribute, a workflow, or an access control.

14. The data processing system readable medium of claim 11, wherein the content type is based on a referenced model or a containment model.

15. A system for modeling content comprising:

a content management layer;

an application services layer over the content management layer; and

an application programming interface to the application services layer, wherein the application programming interface is configured to allow a user to send a content type to the content management layer via the application programming interface and application services layer.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a persistence layer, wherein the content management layer overlies the persistence layer.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising a graphical user interface coupled to the application programming interface.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to create an XML definition of the content type based on inputs using the graphical user interface.

19. The system of claim 15, further comprising a business data object, wherein the business data object is an instantiation of the content type and the content type is a business content type.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the content type comprises an attribute, a workflow, and an access control.