SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC REGENERATION OF PAGE FRAGMENTS

• US 20110022947A1
• Filed: 10/07/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc, OT IP SUB, LLC
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Rajkumar, N. Isaac, Kis, Ladislav, Bolanus, Expeditus, Collins, Jeffrey M., Moses, Dean `, Stahl, Ian, Hale, Peter, Reddy, Priya, DeFrance, Daun, Chaston, Miles, Nemec, Richard, Martin, Mark, Zgarba, Tony, Chang, Ching-Fu, Patterson, Robert L., Long, Lara, McCalister, Mark, Tulkoff, Michael C., You, Puhong, Petersen, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,260,802 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/638 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and method for the provisioning of dynamically generated content. One embodiment can interface a content delivery system and a content management system at the fragment level. Depending upon how a page is organized, a fragment may refer to a block within the page, a portion of the page, or a content item presented on the page. When a content item is updated and published onto the content management system, one embodiment of the invention can operate to track dependencies of managed pages and invalidate/validate fragment(s) affected by the change(s) accordingly. The updated fragment(s) may then be dynamically assembled on-the-fly or on-demand. The updated fragment(s) may or may not be cached. In this way, changes made to a piece of content can be reflected in all pages which utilize this content almost simultaneously with the changes to the content itself.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a computer implementing a content generation system;

receiving a notification of a content change, wherein the content change affects at least one page fragment;

dynamically re-generating the at least one page fragment affected by the content change; and

assembling one or more dynamic pages utilizing the at least one page fragment dynamically re-generated by the content generation system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content generation system tracks dependencies associated with a plurality of page fragments.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the dependencies include associations between the at least one page fragment and other page fragments.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the one or more dynamic pages are dynamically assembled utilizing the associations between the at least one page fragment and the other page fragments.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the dependencies include an association between the at least one page fragment and the one or more dynamic pages.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the one or more dynamic pages are dynamically assembled utilizing the association between the at least one page fragment and the one or more dynamic pages.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the notification of the content change is received from a content management system.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the at least one page fragment affected by the content change is managed by the content management system.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one page fragment affected by the content change is from an external data source.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing the one or more dynamic pages to a web server communicatively coupled to the content generation system.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor to perform:

receiving a notification of a content change, wherein the content change affects at least one page fragment;

dynamically re-generating the at least one page fragment affected by the content change; and

assembling one or more dynamic pages utilizing the at least one page fragment dynamically re-generated.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further translatable by the processor to track dependencies associated with a plurality of page fragments.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the dependencies include associations between the at least one page fragment and other page fragments.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the one or more dynamic pages are dynamically assembled utilizing the associations between the at least one page fragment and the other page fragments.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the dependencies include an association between the at least one page fragment and the one or more dynamic pages.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more dynamic pages are dynamically assembled utilizing the association between the at least one page fragment and the one or more dynamic pages.

17. A system, comprising:

a content generator configured to;

receive a notification of a content change, wherein the content change affects at least one page fragment;

dynamically re-generate the at least one page fragment affected by the content change; and

assemble one or more dynamic pages utilizing the at least one page fragment dynamically re-generated.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a content manager communicatively coupled to the content generator, wherein the notification of the content change is received from the content manager.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the at least one page fragment affected by the content change is managed by the content management system.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one page fragment affected by the content change is from an external data source.