FEDERATED SEARCH

• US 20130007054A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Brette, Marc, Chevalier, Pierre-Yves, Spivak, Victor, Rankov, Alex
• Granted Patent: US 8,903,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/256 in federated or virtual databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

Federated search is disclosed. A result associated with a search of a content source not natively configured to provide content type data for content items is received. A content type is associated with a content item included in the result based at least in part on information associated with the result.

Claims

1. A system for managing content comprising:

A processor configured to;

receive at a content management system that is organized by content item type a search query using a content type data to request one or more content items;

cause the search query to search in an external content source that is not natively configured to provide content type data for content items;

receive at the content management system a result associated with the search query from a search of the external content source not natively configured to provide content type data for content items;

associate a content type with a content item included in the result based at least in part on an information associated with the result; and

provide the result associated with the search query of the external content source; and

a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

2. A system as in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive the information associated with the result associated with the search query of the external content source.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein the information associated with the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes metadata associated with the content item.

4. A system as in claim 1, the information associated with the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes information about the content source.

5. A system as in claim 1, the information associated with the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes information associating the content type with the content source.

6. A system as in claim 1, wherein the external content source comprises an external source of content that is external to the content management system.

7. A system as in claim 1, wherein the external content source comprises one of the following:

a content management system, a database system, a legacy content management system, an information source system, or a search services system.

8. A system as in claim 1, wherein causing the search query to search in an external content source includes translating the request into a form associated with the external content source.

9. A system as in claim 8, wherein the request comprises a more general request.

10. A system as in claim 9, wherein receiving the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes post-filtering the result to check that the results are relevant to the requested search of the content source.

11. A system as in claim 1, wherein causing the search query to search in the external content source includes providing authentication information to the external content source.

12. A system as in claim 1, wherein receiving the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes translating the result into a form associated with the content management system with respect to which the external content source comprises an external source.

13. A system as in claim 1, wherein the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes information enabling the search result associated with the search query of the external content source to be obtained again from the external content source.

14. A system as in claim 1, wherein receiving the result associated with the search query of the external content source includes one or more of the following:

adding, querying for, or generating the information associated with the result.

15. A computer program product for managing content, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving at a content management system that is organized by content item type a search query using a content type data to request one or more content items;

causing the search query to search in an external content source that is not natively configured to provide content type data for content items;

receiving at the content management system a result associated with the search query from a search of the external content source not natively configured to provide content type data for content items;

associating a content type with a content item included in the result based at least in part on an information associated with the result; and

providing the result associated with the search query of the external content source.

16. A method for managing content comprising:

receiving at a content management system that is organized by content item type a search query using a content type data to request one or more content items;

causing the search query to search in an external content source that is not natively configured to provide content type data for content items;

receiving at the content management system a result associated with the search query from a search of the external content source not natively configured to provide content type data for content items;

associating a content type with a content item included in the result based at least in part on an information associated with the result; and

providing the result associated with the search query of the external content source.