MULTI-TIER CUSTOMIZABLE PORTAL DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM

• US 20170017503A1
• Filed: 07/17/2015
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Levy, Bianca Blount, Terrell, Riccardo, Baker, Jonathan Claude, Fung, Nancy
• Granted Patent: US 10,789,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A computing system comprises, in one example, a display system, a portal hierarchy model have a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical parent/child relationships, each node representing a set of one or more portals and having associated portal configuration data, and a portal rendering system configured to detect a user request to render content in a given one of the portals and to obtain a set of portal configuration data for the given portal by identifying a first node in the portal hierarchy model that represents the given portal and traversing the portal hierarchy model from the first node to a second node that is a parent of the first node. The computing system also includes a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate portal user interface displays based on the set of portal configuration data.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

a display system;

a portal hierarchy model have a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical parent/child relationships, each node representing a set of one or more portals and having associated portal configuration data;

a portal rendering system configured to detect a user request to render content in a given one of the portals and to obtain a set of portal configuration data for the given portal by identifying a first node in the portal hierarchy model that represents the given portal and traversing the portal hierarchy model from the first node to a second node that is a parent of the first node; and

a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate portal user interface displays based on the set of portal configuration data.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the first node comprises a leaf node in the portal hierarchy model.

3. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the portal hierarchy model comprises a plurality of leaf nodes each representing a different portal.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the second node represents a plurality of different portals, including the given portal, and includes portal configuration data for the plurality of different portals.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the portal configuration data for each node comprises language translation data that define textual translations into one or more languages.

6. The computing system of claim 5, wherein the portal configuration data for at least one of the nodes includes text strings in a plurality of different languages.

7. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the portal rendering system is configured to identify a language in which to render the content in the given portal and to traverse the portal hierarchy model based on the identified language.

8. The computing system of claim 7, wherein the set of portal configuration data defines how the given portal is translated into the identified language.

9. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the user request to render content comprises a request to render, in a given language, a user interface display having at least one user interface element, and the set of portal configuration data defines a text string for the user interface element.

10. The computing system of claim 9, wherein the portal rendering system is configured to determine whether a text string in the given language is defined at the first node and, if not, traverse the portal hierarchy model to determine whether a text string in the given language is defined at the second node.

11. The computing system of claim 10, wherein the portal rendering system is configured to traverse the portal hierarchy model from the second node to a third node, that is a parent of the second node, if a text string in the given language is not defined at the second node.

12. The computing system of claim 9, wherein the portal rendering system is configured to determine that a text string in the given language is not defined in the portal hierarchy model and, in response, select the text string for the user interface element that is in a default language, that is different than the given language.

13. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the user request to render content comprises a request to render a plurality of user interface elements, and the set of portal configuration data comprises text strings for each of the user interface elements.

14. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the portal rendering system is configured to obtain the text strings for the plurality of user interface elements by, for each user interface element, analyzing the first node in the portal hierarchy model to determine whether a text string is defined for the user interface element and to traverse the portal hierarchy model to the second node if the text string is not defined.

15. The computing system of claim 14, wherein each user interface element comprises a unique identifier that uniquely identifies the user interface element within the computing system, and wherein the set of portal configuration data associates the text strings with the unique identifiers.

16. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating a user interface display with user input mechanisms;

detecting user interaction with the user input mechanisms that requests content in a given portal;

accessing a portal hierarchy model that includes a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical parent/child relationships, each node representing a set of one or more portals and having associated portal configuration data;

obtaining a set of portal configuration data for the given portal by identifying a first node in the portal hierarchy model that represents the given portal and traversing the portal hierarchy model from the first node to a second node that is a parent of the first node; and

generating a portal user interface display based on the set of portal configuration data.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, and further comprising:

identifying a selected language in which to render the content in the given portal, wherein the portal hierarchy model is traversed, based on the selected language, to obtain the set of portal configuration data for rendering the content in the selected language.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein identifying a selected language comprises detecting a user input that selects the selected language from a plurality of available languages.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, and further comprising:

identifying the plurality of available languages by traversing the portal hierarchy model to identify languages assigned to nodes in the portal hierarchy model.

20. A computing system comprising:

a display system;

a provisioning system configured to generate a portal hierarchy model that includes a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical parent/child relationships, each node representing a set of one or more portals; and

a configuration system comprising a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate a portal configuration user interface display with user input mechanisms and to detect user interaction with the user input mechanisms that define portal customizations for a given portal, wherein the configuration system includes a portal customization component that is configured to customize the given portal by generating port configuration data that is stored in association with a node in the portal hierarchy model that represents the given portal.