METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING ASSOCIATED PORTLETS OF A WEB PORTLET TO COLLABORATE FOR SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT DISPLAY

• US 20090292800A1
• Filed: 02/26/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kapoor, Rohit, Nigul, Leho, Ng, Joanna
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,705 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

The invention provides method and apparatus for collaboration between a plurality of associated portlets in a portal server including: associating each portlet with a portlet descriptor describing context names; forming collaboration groups of portlets having corresponding context names for synchronized contents.

Claims

1. A method of hosting a plurality of associated portlets accessible by a user in a web portal having portlet refresh capability, wherein said portlets have portlet descriptors, comprising:

managing said plurality of associated portlets in a portlet application;

assigning a priority description to each portlet using its portlet descriptor; and

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refreshing said portlets in order of their refresh priorities.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said groups of associated portlets comprise collaboration groups of portlets;

each said group of portlets comprising a master portlet and at least one slave portlet.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein each master portlet has a higher priority than a corresponding slave portlet.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said collaboration groups are assigned different priorities.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said collaboration groups of portlets are refreshed in order of their priorities.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein refreshing occurs first by group priority order and then by portlet priority order within each group.

7. A portlet application capable of operating on a portal server for hosting multiple associated portlets in a web portal accessible by a user, said portal server comprising a processor and a memory and having portlet refresh capability, comprising:

said associated portlets comprising collaboration groups of portlets;

portlet application means for managing said multiple associated portlets;

each associated portlet having a portlet descriptor;

each portlet descriptor including a refresh priority description for said portlet, and a refresh description priority for the group of portlets of which said portlet is a member;

each said group of portlets include a master portlet and at least one slave portlet; and

means in said portlet application means for refreshing said portlets in order of their priorities means in said portlet application means for refreshing said collaborative groups of portlets in order of their group refresh priorities.

8. The portlet application of claim 7, wherein each master portlet has a higher priority than a corresponding slave portlet.

9. The portlet application of claim 7, wherein said collaboration groups are assigned different priorities.

10. The portlet application of claim 7, wherein refreshing occurs first by group priority order and then by portlet priority order within each group.

11. A portlet application capable of operating on a portal server for hosting multiple associated portlets in a web portal accessible by a user, said portal server having portlet refresh capability, comprising:

portlet application means for managing said multiple associated portlets;

each associated portlet having a portlet descriptor;

each portlet descriptor including refresh priority description for said portlet;

said associated portlets comprising collaboration groups of portlets;

each said group of portlets comprising a master portlet and at least one slave portlet; and

means in said portlet application means for refreshing said portlets in order of their refresh priorities.

12. The portlet application of claim 11 wherein said master portlets have higher priorities than slave portlets.

13. The portlet application of claim 11, wherein said collaboration groups are assigned different priorities.

14. The portlet application of claim 11 wherein said portlet application refreshes said groups first in group priority order and then refreshes within each group in priority order.