SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SMART UPLOAD AUTOMATION

• US 20130268585A1
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crowdstrike, Inc. (CrowdStrike Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Shepstone, Lee
• Granted Patent: US 9,894,184 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products for smart upload automation in which actions are automatically performed on a set of digital assets against a target item. In one embodiment, a system includes a network, a server machine, a client machine and a data storage device, each of which is coupled to the network. The client machine designates digital assets and a target item against which the assets will be uploaded. The digital assets are uploaded by the client machine to the data storage device via the network. The server machine automatically performs actions on the digital assets without intervention by the client machine, where the actions are associated with or in some way defined by the target item. The actions may include setting metadata values of the digital assets based upon metadata associated with the target item, or generating different renditions of the digital assets.

Claims

1. A system for performing uploads comprising:

a server communicatively connected to a network;

a target item stored on a storage device coupled to the server and including a plurality of target metadata; and

an uploaded item, the uploaded item received from a client via the network and including a plurality of uploaded metadata, at least of portion of which corresponding to the target metadata, the server configured to set the target item in response to a target item selection received via the client and automatically execute at least one automation on the uploaded item, the at least one automation including updating one of the uploaded metadata values of the uploaded item, the updating at least partially based on one of the target metadata values of the target item, the update to one of a set of predefined metadata value types.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the uploaded item includes a first uploaded item and a second uploaded item and the at least one automation includes a plurality of automations, all of which are executed sequentially on the first uploaded item and then on the second uploaded item.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one automation is based on a predetermined value responsive to an input received via the client.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the predetermined value is selected from a list of predetermined values, the list set by a system administrator.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one automation conforms the updated item to the target item by converting the uploaded item according to at least one of the predefined metadata types as the target item.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the predefined metadata types correspond to a set of file formats.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the set of file formats correspond to image file formats, the uploaded item including an uploaded image and the target item including a target image, the at least one automation including generating a composite image comprising at least part of the uploaded image and at least part of the target image.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the target item is one of a media album or a news channel.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the uploaded item is a media file.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the media file is a plurality of media files including at least one of a video media file and an image media file.

11. A method for performing uploads, comprising:

storing, at a storage device coupled to a network, a target item including a plurality of target metadata; and

setting, by a server communicatively coupled to the network, the target item in response to a target item selection received from a client via the network; and

automatically executing, by the server, at least one automation on an uploaded item, the uploaded item including a plurality of uploaded metadata, at least of portion of which corresponds to the target metadata, the at least one automation including updating one value of the uploaded metadata of the uploaded item, the updating at least partially based on one value of the target metadata of the target item, the update to one of a set of predefined metadata value types.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the uploaded item includes a first uploaded item and a second uploaded item and the at least one automation includes a plurality of automations, all of which are executed sequentially on the first uploaded item and then on the second uploaded item.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one automation is based on a predetermined value responsive to an input received via the client.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the predetermined value is selected from a list of predetermined values, the list set by a system administrator.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one automation conforms the updated item to the target item by converting the uploaded item according to at least one of the predefined metadata types as the target item.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the predefined metadata types correspond to a set of file formats.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of file formats correspond to image file formats, the uploaded item including an uploaded image and the target item including a target image, the at least one automation including generating a composite image comprising at least part of the uploaded image and at least part of the target image.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the target item is one of a media album or a news channel.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the uploaded item is a media file.

20. A computer program product for performing uploads, the computer program product including at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by a computer to perform:

storing, at a storage device coupled to a network, a target item including a plurality of target metadata; and

setting the target item in response to a target item selection received from a client via the network; and

automatically executing at least one automation on the uploaded item, the uploaded item including a plurality of uploaded metadata, at least of portion of which corresponds to the target metadata, the at least one automation including updating one value of the uploaded metadata of the uploaded item, the updating at least partially based on one value of the target metadata of the target item, the update to one of a set of predefined metadata value types.