Web content management based on timeliness metadata

• US 8,365,069 B1
• Filed: 08/17/2011
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lorenz, Simon, Wolafka, Rainer, Wolf-Reber, Alexander, Haubrich, Manfred, Marschollek, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US13/211,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20130047071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 715/201, 715/202, 715/204, 715/205, 715/209, 715/210, 715/226, 715/231, 715/234, 715/255, 715/273, 715/700, 715/714, 715/717, 715/760, 709201-204, 709/215, 709217- 21, 709/220, 709/223, 709/226, 709/227
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A server receives a hypertext request from a client. The server looks up a hypertext document, wherein looking up comprises obtaining a first HTML element and a second HTML element and combining the first HTML element and second HTML element into a hypertext document, in response receiving the hypertext request from the client. The server parses the hypertext document for timeliness tags. The server generates at least one header tag based on the timeliness tags. The server determines whether at least one expired tag is among the timeliness tags. Responsive to a determination that at least one expired tag is among the timeliness tags, the server can look up a timeliness tag rule corresponding to the at least one timeliness tag.

Claims

1. A computer program product for responding to hypertext requests, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to receive a hypertext request from a client;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to look up a hypertext document, wherein program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to look up comprises obtaining a first HyperText Markup Language (HTML) element and a second HTML element and combining the first HTML element and second HTML element into the hypertext document, responsive to receiving the hypertext request from the client;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to parse the hypertext document for timeliness tags;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to generate at least one header tag based on the timeliness tags;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine if at least one expired tag is among the timeliness tags; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to look up a timeliness tag rule corresponding to the at least one expired tag,

wherein program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to look up the timeliness tag rule corresponding to the at least one expired tag comprise;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine that the timeliness tag rule is to exclude in response to the at least one expired tag; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine to exclude an HTML element associated with the at least one expired tag as a server responds to the client, responsive to the determination that the timeliness tag rule is to exclude in response to the at least one expired tag.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product further comprises:

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine that a web server module is enabled, wherein program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to look up the hypertext document are responsive to a determination that the web server module is enabled, responsive to receiving the hypertext request from the client.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine that the web server module is enabled further comprises:

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to parse a configuration file for an indicator that the web server module is enabled.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein a web server module is a software component executing in a server to dynamically generate a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) response to selectively incorporate one or more HTML elements based on timeliness tags present in the hypertext document referenced by the hypertext request.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to parse further comprise:

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to parse at least one timeliness tag;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine that the timeliness tag contains a metadata registry reference;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to request timeliness details from the metadata registry contained in the timeliness tag, responsive to a determination that the timeliness tag contains the metadata registry reference; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to receive timeliness details from a metadata registry reference.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to receive timeliness details further comprises:

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to substitute at least the metadata registry reference with the timeliness details.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the timeliness tag consists of a string selected from the group of strings consisting of create-date and expire-date.