Method and system for managing enterprise content

• US 8,880,461 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2011
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crowdstrike, Inc. (CrowdStrike Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Jenkins, Paul Thomas, Barkley, Daniel Wray, Boender, Robert W., Howatson, Adam Murray, Morton, Willard Carter Jr., McKinnon, Cheryl Lynne, Mller, Florian, Sumner-Smith, Martin, Timmermans, Matthew David George
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahn, Sangwoo
• Application Number:
  US13/154,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238649A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,247 Days
• US Class Current: 707/608
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for searching for data and managing a plurality of different types of content, comprising:

receiving a request for visualizing content within a presentation framework, wherein the presentation framework is configured to interpret a user interface model for rendering the content, the content having content metadata and an associated type of native application, wherein the native application has at least one associated generic content service or an associated custom content service, wherein the associated generic content service supports actions that are common across different native applications and the associated custom content service supports actions that are unique to the native application;

determining a model of the content configured for provisioning within the presentation framework based on a process step within a process;

sending a search query associated with the content to a plurality of content repositories configured to store the plurality of different types of content and to index the content for searching, the content repositories including at least one content management repository for storing the content metadata;

receiving the content metadata of the content from a selected one of the plurality of content repositories;

exposing, to a process that consumes an object model, an object property-to-property mapping based on mapping model metadata to the content in the presentation framework;

providing an interactive instance of a portion of the content within the presentation framework based on the property-to-property mapping; and

determining a user-interface control provided through the presentation framework based on the model metadata and the content metadata, wherein the user-interface control provides at least one generic content service and a custom content service based on the type of native application of the content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the process includes parameters identifying resources to perform the process or defining deliverables.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the model comprises determining a model metadata for the plurality of content of different types.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating an additional activity with the content; and

augmenting the content metadata with additional information associated with the additional activity.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending the search query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the search index is an embedded search index.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein exposing the object property-to-property mapping further comprises:

exposing the object property-to-property mapping to a defined group of users within the user interface control.

8. A system for providing, over a network, a user interface for searching for data and managing content, comprising:

one or more computers configured to implement a metadata mapping component configured to perform actions comprising;

receiving a request for visualizing content within a presentation framework, wherein the presentation framework is configured to interpret a user interface model for rendering the content, the content having metadata and an associated type of native application, wherein the native application has at least one associated generic content service or an associated custom content service, wherein the associated generic content service supports actions that are common across different native applications and the associated custom content service supports actions that are unique to the native application;

determining a model of the content configured for provisioning within the presentation framework based on a process step within a process;

sending a search query associated with the content to a plurality of content repositories configured to store the plurality of different types of content and to index the content for searching, the content repositories including at least one content management repository for storing the content metadata;

receiving the content metadata of the content from a selected one of the plurality of content repositories;

exposing, to a user or a process that consumes an object model, an object property-to-property mapping based on mapping model metadata to the content in the presentation framework;

providing an interactive instance of a portion of the content within the presentation framework based on the property-to-property mapping; and

determining a user interface control provided through the presentation framework based on the model metadata and the content metadata, wherein the user interface control provides at least one generic content service and a custom content service based on the type of native application of the content.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the process includes parameters identifying resources to perform the process or defining deliverables.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein determining the model comprises determining a model metadata for the plurality of content of different types.

11. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

adding additional external content data to the content based on an activity within a work flow, wherein adding additional content data comprises;

including content metadata based on an activity within a work flow.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein searching further comprises:

sending the search query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the search index is an embedded search index.

14. The system of claim 8, the search engine is configured to extract data and content from one or more external data management system and index the extracted data and content in the search index in order to optimize a query expression passed into the search engine.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein exposing the object property-to-property mapping further comprises:

exposing the object property-to-property mapping to a defined group of users.

16. A non-transitory processor readable medium for searching for data and managing content, the medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform actions that comprise:

receiving a request for visualizing content within a presentation framework, wherein the presentation framework is configured to interpret a user interface model for rendering the content, the content having content metadata and an associated type of native application, wherein the native application has at least one associated generic content service or an associated custom content service, wherein the associated generic content service supports actions that are common across different native applications and the associated custom content service supports actions that are unique to the native application;

determining a model of the content configured for provisioning within a presentation framework based on a process step within a process;

sending a search query associated with the content to a plurality of content repositories configured to store the plurality of different types of content and to index the content for searching, the content repositories including at least one content management repository for storing the content metadata;

receiving the content metadata of the content from a selected one of the plurality of content repositories;

exposing, to a user or a process that consumes an object model, an object property-to-property mapping based on mapping model metadata to the content in the presentation frame work;

providing an interactive instance of a portion of the content within the presentation framework based on the property-to-property mapping; and

determining a user interface control provided through the presentation framework based on the model metadata and the content metadata, wherein the user interface control provides at least one generic content service and a custom content service based on the type of native application of the content.

17. The processor readable medium of claim 16, wherein the search index is an embedded search index.

18. The processor readable medium of claim 17,further comprising adding additional content data, which comprises:

including content metadata based on an activity within a work flow.

19. The processor readable medium of claim 18, comprising further instructions that, when executed, operate to cause one or more computers to perform the operation comprising:

sending the search query for the content to a plurality of productivity application environment configured to provide content of the plurality of different types.