Virtual content publishing system

• US 8,010,627 B1
• Filed: 09/25/1998
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Wells, Scott Christopher, Schneebeli, Scot L., Oehrke, Terry Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamza; Faruk
• Assistant Examiner(s): Survillo; Oleg
• Application Number:
  US09/160,424
• Time in Patent Office: 4,722 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/219, 709/226, 709/232, 709/218, 709/225, 709/229, 709/256, 707/201
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• 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 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method and system for publishing network content is provided. Using an administrator interface, changes to content are made in a staging area. The staging area allows access to the remainder of the network for verifying links. Content is then published to a plurality of production areas in response to a single command.

Claims

1. A system for publishing content on a computer network, the system comprising:

a staging server and associated software comprising a staging area on the computer network, the staging area operable to allow generation, editing and/or testing by an administrator of staging content and transfer of the staging content from the staging area to a plurality of production areas for publication on the production areas at substantially the same time, wherein the transferred staging content published on each of the production areas is the same staging content;

a firewall operable to limit access to the staging area to at least two access levels such that the staging area is not accessible by content users of the computer network, the firewall operatively connected to the staging server, and

wherein a first user associated with a first of the at least two access levels is allowed to control generation, editing and/or testing of the staging content, and wherein a second user associated with a second of the at least two access levels is allowed to control transfer of the staging content from the staging area to the production areas.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a production server associated with production content;

and

wherein the production content is replaced with the staging content associated with the staging area and the replacement is reversed at a later time.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the software comprises segmented software;

and the each segment of the segmented software is associated with one of a plurality of user groups.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a user interface associated with selections for at least two actions selected from the group consisting of:

testing the interaction of the staging content with the computer network from the staging area;

scheduling a transfer of the staging content to a first production server and a second production server;

canceling said scheduled transfer;

transferring the content to the first production server and the second production server in response to a publish command;

replacing production content on the first production server and the second production server with prior production content, the prior production content comprising content previously on the first production server and the second production server;

providing information selected from the group consisting of;

log files, status information and combinations thereof.