Method and system for web management

• US 7,003,528 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2003
• Issued: 02/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: 3565 Acquisition Corporation
• Inventors: Brown, Albert C., Dan, Noah
• Primary Examiner(s): EL HADY, NABIL M
• Application Number:
  US10/354,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20030217117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 707/10, 707/102, 707223-225, 707229-233
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A web management system including a file system caching web pages in a web site. The web management system parses attributes to generate the web pages and stores the web pages in the file system.

Claims

1. A method of qualifying a user to access and edit an attribute one or more web pages of a web site, the method comprising:

storing in a database system attributes of web pages of a web site, wherein said attributes comprising content and data relating to presentation of the content;

storing in said database system associations of said attributes with said web pages of said web site;

associating users with varying access rights, wherein at feast some of the users acquire access rights to certain ones of said attributes while at least others of said users acquire access rights to certain others of said attributes;

caching the web pages in a file system;

receiving a request from one of said users to edit an attribute associated with one or more of said web pages;

determining whether said one of said users is authorized to edit said attribute by reviewing said access rights associated with said one of said users

parsing the attributes in the database system to generate partially static web pages; and

caching the generated web pages in a file system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said associating users with said varying access rights further comprises assigning users access rights on an attribute level.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said associating users with said varying access rights further comprises assigning users access rights through role-based authorization.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said users are assigned a role comprising at least one of visitor, member, premium member, contractor, employee, manager, user, web master, power user, guest, consultant, writer, editor, designer, engineer, and site administrator.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said associating users with said varying access rights further comprises assigning users access rights as a member of one or more groups.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said groups comprises at least one of visitor, member, premium member, contractor, employee, manager, user, web master, power user, guest, consultant, writer, editor, designer, engineer, and site administrator.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein said associating users with said varying access rights further comprises assigning users access rights through role-based authorization.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said request from said one of said users to edit said attribute comprises at least one of a request to create, update, modify and delete said attribute.

9. A web site management system comprising:

a file system storing web pages of a web site wherein some of said web pages comprises static web pages;

a database system storing attributes of said web pages, wherein said attributes comprising content and data relating to presentation of the content;

a web management system capable of associating users with varying access rights to said attributes of said web pages, wherein at least some of the users are associated with access rights to certain ones of said attributes while at least others of said users are associated with access rights to certain others of said attributes, wherein the web management system receives a request from one of said users to edit an attribute associated with one or more of said web pages, the web management system determines whether said one of said users is authorized to edit said attribute by reviewing said access rights associated with said one of said users the web management system parses the attributes in the database system to generate partially static web pages; and

the web management system caches the generated web pages in the file system.

10. The web site of claim 9, wherein said web management system assigns users access rights on an attribute level.

11. The web site of claim 9, wherein said web management system assigns users access rights through role-based authorization.

12. The web site of claim 11, wherein said role-based authorization comprises roles of at least one of visitor, member, premium member, contractor, employee, manager, user, web master, power user, guest, consultant, writer, editor, designer, engineer, and site administrator.

13. The web site of claim 9, wherein said web management system assigns users access rights as a member of one or more groups.

14. The web site of claim 13, wherein said groups comprises at least one of visitor, member, premium member, contractor, employee, manager, user, web master, power user, guest, consultant, writer, editor, designer, engineer, and site administrator.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein said web management system also assigns users access rights through role-based authorization.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein said request from said one of said users to edit said attribute comprises at least one of a request to create, update, modify and delete said attribute.