Content administration system

• US 7,272,603 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2004
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Visionarts, Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujita, Takeshi, Kawachi, Tsutomu, Hattori, Mayuko, Masumoto, Shuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Wilson
• Application Number:
  US10/807,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20040243924A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 707 1- 10
• US Class Current: 707/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/915 Image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/959 Network
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

A content administration system receives user identification information from a terminal device via the Internet. The content administration system then specifies content administration information storage means corresponding to the received user identification information. The content administration system acquires object path information correlated to sharing permission information from a content administration information storage means of another unspecified user. The content administration system then acquires an icon image from the icon image storage means. The content administration system then makes display control information for the content administration screen containing the icon leading to the object based on the acquired icon image and the acquired object path information. The content administration system transmits the made display control information to the terminal device via the Internet. As a result, an administrator of a web site does not have to add a content path corresponding to an HTML file when adding content to a web site administered by themselves or when sharing content with another web site.

Claims

1. A web-page content administration system server for administering content of the web-page, the web-page system server comprising:

(1) content administration information storage means for storing individual content administration information for every item of user identification information;

(2) icon image storage means for storing icon images;

(3) communicating means for communicating with an external terminal device via the Internet; and

(4) information processing means for controlling operation of the content administration information storage means, the icon image storage means, and the communicating means;

(5) wherein the content administration information storage means of the web-page server system stores folder path information identifying a folder storage location and sharing permission information indicating whether a folder is accessible by other users, and the processing means of the web-page server system carries out the following operations;

(6) receiving user identification information from the terminal device via the Internet;

(7) specifying content administration information storage means corresponding to the received user identification information;

(8) acquiring folder path information of a folder correlated to the sharing permission information from content administration information storage means of another unspecified user;

(9) acquiring an icon image from the icon image storage means;

(10) making display control information for a content administration screen containing an icon image leading to the content of the web-page based on the acquired icon image and content path based on the folder path information acquired in (8) and the title of the content acquired from the folder; and

(11) transmitting the display control information to the terminal device via the Internet, wherein the icon image leads to the content based on the acquired folder path information and wherein manually adding folder path information is avoided.

2. A web-page content administration system server for administering content, the web-page system server comprising:

(1) icon image storage means for storing icon images;

(2) communicating means for communicating with an external terminal device via the Internet; and

(3) information processing means for controlling operation of the icon image storage means, and the communicating means, wherein the processing means of the web-page server system carries out the following operations;

(4) acquiring folder path information of a folder identifying a storage location of a folder at another server device from the terminal device via the Internet;

(5) acquiring an icon image from the icon image storage means;

(6) making display control information for a content administration screen containing an icon image leading to the content of the web-page based on the acquired icon image and content path based on the folder path information acquired in (4) and the title of the content acquired from the folder; and

(7) transmitting the display control information to the terminal device via the Internet, wherein the icon image leads to the folder based on the acquired folder path information and wherein manually adding folder path information is avoided.

3. The content administration system server as disclosed in claim 2, wherein (4) comprises the following:

(a1) receiving of an upload request from the terminal device,

(a2) receiving a file saved with folder path information saved at the desktop of the terminal device based on the received upload request, and

(a3) acquiring the folder path information from the received file.

4. The content administration system server as disclosed in claim 2, wherein (4) comprises the following:

(a1) receiving of an upload request from the terminal device,

(a2) receiving a cached file of a web browser of the terminal device storing the folder path information based on the received upload request, and

(a3) acquiring the folder path information from the received cashed file.

5. A web-page content administration system server for administering content, the web-page system server comprising:

(1) icon image storage means for storing icon images;

(2) communicating means for communicating with one of the group consisting of an external server device and a terminal device via the Internet; and

(3) information processing means of the web-page server system for controlling operation of the image storage means and the communicating means, wherein the processing means carries out the following operations;

(4) acquiring folder path information of a folder identifying a storage location of a folder administered by the external server device from the external server device;

(5) acquiring an icon image from the icon image storage means;

(6) making display control information for the content administration screen containing the icon leading to the content of the web-page based on the acquired icon image and content path based on the folder path information acquired in (4) and the title of the content acquired from the folder; and

(7) transmitting the made display control information to the external terminal device via the Internet, wherein the icon image leads to the folder based on the acquired folder path information and wherein manually adding folder path information is avoided.

6. The content administration system server as disclosed in claim 5, wherein (4) contains the following:

acquiring the folder path information from the external server device using socket communication between server devices.