CLOUD-BASED CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20130185439A1
• Filed: 03/06/2013
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Velasco, Marc B.
• Granted Patent: US 10,164,896 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation

Abstract

Methods for providing content management services in a Cloud computing environment. A content management application and associated content is distributed across a set of servers in a Cloud computing environment. Requests for Cloud content management services are received from requesters that are using the Cloud computing environment. The received requests are analyzed to determine an amount of resources needed for responding to the requests. Based on the results of the analysis and a predetermined set of rules, the content management application is dynamically replicated to additional servers within the Cloud computing environment. Any instance of the content management application is capable of replying to any received request so as to maintain a high throughput of the Cloud content management services.

Claims

1. A method for providing content management services in a Cloud computing environment, comprising:

distributing a content management application and associated content across a set of servers in a Cloud computing environment;

receiving requests for Cloud content management services from requesters that are using the Cloud computing environment;

analyzing the received requests to determine an amount of resources needed for responding to the requests; and

based on the results of the analysis and a predetermined set of rules, dynamically replicating the content management application to additional servers within the Cloud computing environment, wherein any instance of the content management application is capable of replying to any received request to maintain a high throughput of the Cloud content management services.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of rules include both rules pertaining to deterministic events and rules pertaining to non-deterministic events.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing a set of received requests for content;

predicting, based on the analysis of the received requests, what future requests are likely to be received; and

pre-fetching content that is likely to be requested in the future requests from one or more content management servers in the Cloud computing environment.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

distributing the pre-fetched content to one or more clients of the Cloud content management services.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining to which clients pre-fetched content is to be distributed, wherein the determination is based at least in part on social algorithms that describe relations between a set of individuals.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically migrating individual pieces of content or repositories of content within the Cloud computing environment, based on one or more of;

the size of the content and the storage capabilities of the individual servers in the Cloud computing environment.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein migrating content includes:

in response to a deterministic or non-deterministic event, dividing singular pieces or repositories of content, stored on a server in the Cloud computing environment into two or more pieces of content or repositories, respectively; and

storing at least one of the divided pieces of content or divided repositories on another server in the Cloud computing environment.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein migrating content includes:

in response to a deterministic or non-deterministic event, merging pieces or repositories of content that are stored on a plurality of servers in the Cloud computing environment; and

storing the merged pieces of content or repositories on a smaller subset of the plurality of servers in the Cloud computing environment.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at a central server in the Cloud computing environment, content from a client;

attaching a version identifier to the content;

dividing the content into two or more pieces; and

distributing the pieces of content with attached version identifiers to other servers in the Cloud computing environment.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for content from a client;

determining on which servers in the Cloud computing environment one or more pieces of the requested content are located, the one or more pieces of content together forming the requested content;

retrieving by the client the individual pieces of content from the servers; and

assembling the retrieved pieces of content on the client.