DYNAMIC AGGREGATION OF CONTENT BASED ON A FALLBACK DEFINITION

• US 20100223236A1
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Published: 09/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lorah, Paul Buckley, Steward, Columbus JR., Perez, Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Moiceanu, Corneliu
• Application Number:
  US12/395,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20100223236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/693
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

A processing device and a method dynamically aggregates desired content. A user may specify a fallback definition for a pivot point via a user interface. The fallback definition may include at least a first and a second desired value for the pivot point. Only assets, including content having metadata with values corresponding to provided desired values for one or more pivot points, may be listed in a created list of assets. The list of assets may be sorted to provide a sorted list of assets, which may be ordered such that assets having content associated with a first desired value of the fallback definition appear before assets having content associated with a second desired value of the fallback definition. Each respective asset listed in the sorted list of assets may be added to a set of aggregated content when an equivalent asset is not already included in the set.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method for dynamically aggregating content, the machine-implemented method comprising:

creating, by a processing device, a list of assets selected from a complete content set, each of the assets including content having at least one pivot point, the created list of assets being based, at least partially, on a fallback definition with respect to one of the at least one pivot point;

sorting, by the processing device, the list of assets based on the fallback definition; and

iterating, by the processing device, through the sorted list of assets and performing for each of the assets of the sorted list of assets;

accessing a respective asset listed in the sorted list of assets,

determining, by the processing device, whether an aggregate set of content already includes an asset equivalent to the respective asset, and

adding the respective asset to the aggregate set of content when the determining determines that the aggregate set of content does not already include an asset equivalent to the respective asset.

2. The machine-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

the one of the at least one pivot point is a language pivot point and the fallback definition includes a first desired language and a second desired language, and

a complete content set exists for a last desired language.

3. The machine-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the sorting of the list of assets based on the fallback definition results in the sorted list of assets having ones of the assets in a first desired language being placed before ones of the assets in a second desired language.

4. The machine-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

specifying the fallback definition, including the first desired language, the second desired language, and a third desired language via a user interface.

5. The machine-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the at least one pivot point includes second pivot point representing a product name, a release version, or a subject grouping.

6. The machine-implemented method of claim 1, wherein each of the assets of the complete content set includes metadata, the metadata of each of the assets including a value for the one of the at least one pivot point.

7. The machine-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

the one of the at least one pivot point represents a product and the fallback definition includes values representing a first desired product and a second desired product.

8. A tangible machine-readable medium having instructions recorded thereon for at least one processor, the tangible machine-readable medium comprising:

instructions for creating a list of assets from a complete content set such that each of the assets of the created list of assets has a first pivot point and a second pivot point satisfying corresponding specified values, a plurality of specified values with respect to the first pivot point being included in a fallback definition;

instructions for sorting the created list of assets to produce a sorted list of assets, the sorted list of assets being sorted, with respect to the first pivot point, according to the fallback definition;

instructions for performing, in a sorted order, for each of the assets of the sorted list of assets;

adding, to an aggregate set of content, a respective asset of the sorted list of assets when the aggregate set of content does not already include an asset equivalent to the respective asset.

9. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 8, further comprising:

instructions for providing a user interface for a user to specify the fallback definition.

10. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein:

the fallback definition includes a first desired pivot point value, a second desired pivot point value and a third desired pivot point value,

ones of the assets having the first pivot point with the first desired pivot point value and the second pivot point with one of the corresponding specified values being added to the aggregate set of content if existing in the complete content set,

ones of the assets having the first pivot point with the second desired pivot point value and the second pivot point with the one of the corresponding specified values being added to the aggregate set of content only if existing in the complete content set and an asset having the first pivot point with the first desired first pivot point value and the second pivot point with the one of the corresponding specified values does not exist in the complete content set, and

ones of the assets having the first pivot point with the third desired pivot point value and the second pivot point with the one of the corresponding specified values being added to the aggregate set of content only if existing in the complete content set and an asset having the first pivot point with the first desired pivot point value and the second pivot point with the one of the corresponding specified values does not exist in the complete content set and the asset having the first pivot point with the second desired pivot point value and the second pivot point with the one of the corresponding specified values does not exist in the complete content set.

11. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the first pivot point includes a value representing one of a plurality of subject groupings.

12. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the first pivot point includes a value representing one of a plurality of languages.

13. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the second pivot point includes a value representing one of a plurality product names, one of a plurality of release versions, or one of a plurality of subject groupings.

14. A processing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory connected to the at least one processor, the memory further comprising;

instructions for providing a user interface for a user to specify values for a fallback definition associated with a first pivot point,

instructions for creating a list of assets from a plurality of assets, such that the created list of assets lists only ones of the plurality of assets having metadata corresponding to one or more specified groups of values of a plurality of pivot points;

instructions for adding, when found, an asset to an aggregate set of content, such that;

a complete aggregated set of content includes ones of the assets listed in the list of assets having metadata corresponding to a first plurality of specified values associated with the plurality of pivot points, the first plurality of specified values including a first desired value of the specified fallback definition, and

the complete aggregated set of content further includes ones of the assets listed in the list of assets having metadata corresponding to a second plurality of specified values associated with the plurality of pivot points when an asset having the first desired value of the fallback definition and other specified values of the second plurality of specified values associated with others of the plurality of pivot points is not found, the second plurality of specified values further including a second desired value of the fallback definition, and

the completed aggregate set of content further includes ones of the assets listed in the list of assets having metadata corresponding to a third plurality of specified values associated with the plurality of pivot points when an asset having the first desired value of the fallback definition and other specified values of the third plurality of specified values associated with others of the plurality of pivot points is not found, and an asset having the second desired value of the fallback definition and the other specified values of the third plurality of specified values is not found, the third plurality of specified values including a third desired value of the fallback definition.

15. The processing device of claim 14, wherein:

the first pivot point is a language pivot point, and

the instructions for providing a user interface for a user to specify values for a fallback definition associated with a first pivot point further comprise;

instructions for providing a language fallback selection user interface for the user to specify at least a first desired language, a second desired language, and a third desired language for the fallback definition associated with the first pivot point.

16. The processing device of claim 14, wherein:

the first pivot point is a subject grouping pivot point, and

the instructions for providing a user interface for a user to specify values for a fallback definition associated with a first pivot point further comprise;

instructions for providing a user interface for the user to specify at least a first desired subject grouping, a second desired subject grouping, and a third desired subject grouping for the fallback definition associated with the first pivot point.

17. The processing device of claim 14, wherein:

the plurality of pivot points include a language pivot point, a subject grouping pivot point, a release name pivot point, and a product name pivot point.

18. The processing device of claim 17, wherein the complete aggregated set of content is a partially localized help file for a system or an application.

19. The processing device of claim 14, wherein one of the specified values of the fallback definition of the first pivot point is associated with all assets of one complete content set.

20. The processing device of claim 14, further comprising:

instructions for providing a user interface for a user to specify values for a second fallback definition associated with a pivot point other than the first pivot point.