Method and system for modeling of system content

• US 8,959,538 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Tulkoff, Michael C., Collins, Jeffrey M., Scheevel, Mark R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Anya, Charles E
• Application Number:
  US13/920,228
• Publication Number:
  US 20130283178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/24 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method and system of managing content at a network site can allow easier use by business users. A higher level of abstraction can be used to allow business users to create their own objects that may reference or contain other objects or records as managed by a content management system. Business users do not have to learn programming code in order to work those objects, which are content types. A graphical user interface (“GUI”) can be used to help the business users to create, modify, and delete content types. The GUI and the ability for business users to the create content types greatly shortens the time between receiving software to operate a network site and launching content at that network site.

Claims

1. A content management system comprising:

a server comprising a processor and non-transitory computer memory including instructions executable by the processor to implement;

an application component configured to control a plurality of workflows;

a content management component configured to manage content; and

a presentation component configured to be responsive to inputs received via a graphical user running on a client device, communicate the received inputs to the application component via a first generic interface, and configured to access content managed by the content management component via a second generic interface, the presentation component configured to be responsive to content queries, the content queries received via the graphical user interface and on unstructured and structured content, and to forward the content queries to the content management component and obtain query results for output, wherein the application component generates a structured content type based at least in part on the received inputs and obtained query results, and the structured content type is used to generate content type objects each of which being received at the application component as input to at least one of the workflows.

2. The content management system of claim 1, wherein the structured content type has an associated workflow.

3. The content management system of claim 2, wherein the workflow comprises one or more rules for instantiating a content type object from the structured content type.

4. The content management system of claim 1, wherein the structured content type has one or more of attributes comprising one or more of a business attribute, a markup language, a variable type, or a widget.

5. The content management system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the one or more attributes is editable or modifiable.

6. The content management system of claim 1, wherein the structured content type is based on a referenced model or a containment model.

7. The content management system of claim 1, wherein a definition of the structured content type is automatically generated by the server upon persistence of the structured content type.

8. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by at least one processor, the instructions comprising:

an application component configured to control a plurality of workflows;

a content management component configured to manage content; and

a presentation component configured to be responsive to inputs received via a graphical user interface running on a client device, communicate the received inputs to the application component via a first generic interface, and configured to access content managed by the content management component via a second generic interface, the presentation component configured to be responsive to content queries, the content queries received via the graphical user interface and on unstructured and structured content, and to forward the content queries to the content management component and obtain query results for output,

wherein the application component generates a structured content type based at least in part on the received inputs and obtained query results and the structured content type is used to generate content type objects each of which being received at the application component as input to at least one of the workflows.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the structured content type has an associated workflow.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the workflow comprises one or more rules for instantiating a content type object from the structured content type.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the structured content type has one or more of attributes comprising one or more of a business attribute, a markup language, a variable type, or a widget.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein at least one of the one or more attributes is editable or modifiable.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the structured content type is based on a referenced model or a containment model.

14. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the instructions are further translatable by the at least one processor to automatically generate a definition of the structured content type upon persistence of the structured content type.

15. A method for modeling content embodied on non-transitory computer memory including instructions executable by a processor, the method comprising:

controlling a plurality of workflows by an application component;

managing content by a content management component;

at a presentation component, performing;

responding to inputs received via a graphical user interface running on a client device;

communicating the received inputs to the application component via a first generic interface;

accessing content managed by the content management system component via a second generic interface;

responding to content queries on structured and unstructured content, the content queries received via the graphical user interface;

forwarding the content queries to the content management component; and

obtaining query results for output; and

generating, by the application component a structured content type based at least in part on the received inputs and obtained query results,

wherein the structured content type is used to generate content type objects each of which being received at the application component as input to at least one of the workflows.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each of the content types has an associated workflow.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein generating the structured content type comprises specifying one or more of attributes.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more of attributes comprises one or more of a business attribute, a markup language, a variable type, or a widget.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the structured content type is based on a referenced model or a containment model.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

automatically generating a definition of the structured content type upon persistence of the structured content type.