Multi-tenant system for consolidating, searching and sharing distributed user-specific digital content

• US 20140207787A1
• Filed: 01/23/2013
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nubean LLC
• Original Assignee: Nubean LLC
• Inventors: Vohra, Ajay
• Application Number:
  US13/748,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20140207787A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/741
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90 Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

This invention is a system for consolidating distributed user-specific digital content, making the content available for search through a user-specific search index, and enabling sharing of selected user-specific digital content with other users through dynamically created ad hoc shared search indexes. The preferred embodiment of this invention is a multi-tenant user subscription based service hosted on the internet. Another embodiment of this invention is a multi-tenant system hosted within an organization.

Claims

1. A multi-tenant system for delivering user-specific services for:

periodically consolidating user-specific digital content from distributed network services into a single logical data store managed by the system while maintaining user-specific tenancy for the consolidated user-specific digital content;

indexing of consolidated user-specific digital content into a user-specific search index managed by the system;

indexing of shared user-specific digital content into ad hoc shared search indexes managed by the system;

performing unstructured search queries in user-specific search index, or in a shared search index, using a remote browser device connected over a network.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the distributed network services from which user-specific digital content can be periodically consolidated into a single logical store must include at least one distributed network service for each of the following types:

internet based email service supporting webmail, POP3 or IMAP protocols;

internet based social networking service;

internet based cloud application service.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein a user is able to configure a distributed network service for periodic consolidation of user-specific digital content into the system, without specifying to the system any user-specific credentials used by the user to directly logon to the distributed network service.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the user is able to upload arbitrary content files into the user-specific consolidated digital content using a remote browser device connected over a network.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein a user is able to create one or more shared search indexes, invite other users in the system to have access to a shared search index, remove another user'"'"'s access to a shared search index owned by the user, select and share user-specific digital content into a shared search index, remove previously shared user-specific digital content from a shared search index, and remove a shared search index owned by the user.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the user-specific services are offered over the internet as subscription based services.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the user-specific services are hosted and offered within an organization'"'"'s intranet.