STORING AND PUBLISHING CONTENTS OF A CONTENT STORE

• US 20120158673A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Beyreis, Rob, Keller, Roger, Bandrio, Hadi
• Granted Patent: US 9,424,362 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/692
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Aspects are disclosed for publishing contents of a content store. A storage operation is performed, and a completion of the storage operation is detected. Here, the storage operation redundantly stores contents of a content set onto instances associated with a content store. The contents stored in the instances are then published in response to the completion of the storage operation. In another aspect, a dataset table is generated to facilitate storing contents of a content set, which include payload and metadata. The payload is stored onto a payload table, and the metadata is stored onto a metadata table. For this embodiment, the dataset table includes a first foreign key to the payload table, whereas the metadata table includes a second foreign key to the dataset table. The dataset table is monitored to determine a storage status of the contents, and the contents are subsequently published based on the storage status.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to execute computer executable components stored in memory, the components including;

a storage component configured to perform a storage operation, wherein the storage operation redundantly stores contents of a content set onto a plurality of instances associated with a data store;

a detection component configured to detect a completion of the storage operation; and

a publishing component configured to publish the contents stored in the plurality of instances in response to the completion of the storage operation.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage component is configured to periodically delete previously stored versions of the contents.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the publishing component is configured to publish previously stored versions of the contents instead of newly stored versions of the contents.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage operation redundantly stores the contents onto the plurality of instances simultaneously.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the storage component is configured to restart an attempt to store the contents onto a particular instance if a previous attempt to store the contents has failed, and wherein the storage component is further configured to remove the particular instance from the parallel storage operation based on a subsequent failure to store the contents onto the particular instance.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the publishing component is configured to publish the contents via a distributed transaction, and wherein the distributed transaction attempts to publish the contents from each of the plurality of instances.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the publishing component is configured to restart an attempt to publish the contents from a particular instance if a previous attempt to publish the contents has failed, and wherein the publishing component is further configured to remove the particular instance from the distributed transaction based on a subsequent failure to publish the contents from the particular instance.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage component is configured to perform the storage operation on at least one structured query language (SQL) database.

9. A method comprising:

employing a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement a series of acts including;

performing a storage operation, wherein the storage operation redundantly stores contents of a content set onto a plurality of instances associated with a data store;

detecting a completion of the storage operation; and

publishing the contents of the content set stored in the plurality of instances in response to the completion of the storage operation.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the performing of the storage operation comprises periodically deleting previously stored versions of the contents.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the publishing comprises publishing previously stored versions of the contents instead of newly stored versions of the contents.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the performing of the storage operation comprises redundantly storing the contents onto the plurality of instances in parallel.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising restarting an attempt to store the contents onto a particular instance if a previous attempt to store the contents has failed, wherein the performing of the storage operation comprises removing the particular instance from the storage operation based on a subsequent failure to store the contents onto the particular instance.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the publishing comprises publishing the contents via a distributed transaction, and wherein the distributed transaction attempts to publish the contents from each of the plurality of instances.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising restarting an attempt to publish the contents from a particular instance if a previous attempt to publish the contents has failed, and wherein the publishing comprises removing the particular instance from the distributed transaction based on a subsequent failure to publish the contents from the particular instance.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the performing of the storage operation comprises storing the contents on at least one structured query language (SQL) database.

17. A method comprising:

employing a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement a series of acts including;

generating a dataset table, wherein the dataset table facilitates storing contents of a content set, and wherein the contents include a payload and metadata;

storing the payload of the contents onto a payload table, wherein the dataset table includes a first foreign key to the payload table;

storing the metadata of the contents onto a metadata table, wherein the metadata table includes a second foreign key to the dataset table; and

monitoring the dataset table to determine a storage status of the contents; and

publishing the contents based on the storage status.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the publishing comprises publishing the contents from a plurality of instances via a distributed transaction.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising restarting an attempt to publish the contents from a particular instance if a previous attempt to publish the contents has failed, wherein the publishing comprises removing the particular instance from the distributed transaction based on a subsequent failure to publish the contents from the particular instance.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the publishing comprises committing a publication of the plurality of instances simultaneously.