Globalization management system and method therefor

• US 9,954,794 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2017
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SDL Inc (RWS Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: SDL Inc (RWS Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: Cheng, Shang-Che, Pressman, Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khurshid, Zia
• Application Number:
  US15/423,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20170149683A1
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• Field of Search: 709223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A globalization management system for managing resources of multiple interrelated data sources corresponding to a plurality of sites through a communications network is provided. The system includes a plurality of target application interfaces respectively coupled to the interrelated data sources through the network. Each interface includes systems for converting a protocol of the respective data source to a predetermined protocol, and the predetermined protocol to the protocol of the respective data source. The system further includes a global management engine coupled to the plurality of target application interfaces. The engine includes a site-to-site relationship manager, a system for reading current content data from the interrelated data sources, a system for comparing the current content data with prior content data, and a project manager for transferring the data identified as a content change to at least one subscriber site.

Claims

1. A globalization management system for managing resources of a plurality of interrelated websites accessed through a communications network, the system comprising:

a memory for storing executable instructions;

a hardware processor for executing the instructions; and

a globalization manager engine stored in memory and executable by the hardware processor, the globalization manager engine communicatively couplable, via a plurality of target application interfaces, with a plurality of web servers that serve the plurality of interrelated websites, the globalization manager engine including;

a website-to-website relationship manager for;

selecting a provider website, in which changed content is detected, from the plurality of interrelated websites,

identifying provider and subscriber website relationships between the provider website and one or more subscriber websites selected from other websites of the plurality of interrelated websites, and

identifying language translation and localization requirements between the provider and the subscriber websites;

a data manager for determining current content from the provider website selected by the website-to-website relationship manager;

an analysis module for comparing data representing the current content with data representing prior content to identify content changes at the provider website; and

a project manager for obtaining translations of data identified as a content change and transferring the translated data to the one or more subscriber websites.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein each of the target application interfaces are respectively coupled to at least one web server serving at least one of the interrelated websites via the communications network, each of the target application interfaces configured to convert a protocol of a respective legacy content management system to a predetermined protocol and the predetermined protocol to the protocol of the respective legacy content management system.

2. A method for managing a global network of interrelated websites, the method comprising:

determining base content included in each of a plurality of interrelated websites;

periodically evaluating each of the plurality of interrelated websites to detect changed content in at least a portion of the base content of the plurality of interrelated websites;

identifying a provider website from the detected changed content of the website;

determining a provider subscriber relationship between the provider website in which the changed content is detected and at least one other website of the plurality of interrelated websites, the at least one other website being a subscriber website;

updating the changed content of the provider website for the subscriber website using a globalization management engine that comprises memory for storing executable instructions for managing a global network of websites and a hardware processor for executing the instructions, the globalization management engine updating the changed content for the subscriber website by at least one of copying the changed content, translating the changed content, and localizing the changed content, or combinations thereof; and

providing the updated changed content to the subscriber website via the globalization management engine, the subscriber website communicatively coupled with the globalization management engine.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein updating changed content for the subscriber website is based upon locale information for the subscriber website, wherein the locale information defines any of a language, a territory, a character coding, a sorting scheme, or combinations thereof for the subscriber website.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising modifying a database associated with the subscriber website to a Unicode database before the step of updating of the changed content for the subscriber website.

5. The method according to claim 2, further comprising establishing at least one subscriber/provider relationship between the provider website and at least two of the plurality of interrelated websites.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the subscriber/provider relationship comprises links between content of the provider website and the at least two of the plurality of interrelated websites.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein providing comprises uploading the updated changed content to a staging area associated with a legacy content management system used to maintain the subscriber website.

8. The method according to claim 2, further comprising determining at least one legacy content management system associated with the subscriber website, wherein the updated changed content is provided to the at least one legacy content management system in a file format utilized by the at least one legacy content management system.

10. A system for managing a global network of websites, the system comprising:

a memory for storing executable instructions;

a hardware processor for executing the instructions; and

a globalization manager engine that is stored in the memory and executable by the hardware processor to;

determine base content included in each of a plurality of interrelated websites;

evaluate the plurality of interrelated websites periodically to detect a change in at least a portion of the base content for a first provider/subscriber website, the plurality of interrelated websites including two or more provider/subscriber websites;

wherein if the globalization manager engine detects changed content comprising a change in at least a portion of the base content for the first provider/subscriber website, the first provider/subscriber website takes on a role as a resource provider to one or more other websites in the plurality of interrelated websites, and the one or more other websites of the plurality of interrelated websites, including a second provider/subscriber website, take on a role as subscriber websites;

update the changed content for each of the one or more subscriber websites by at least one of copying, translating, localizing, or combinations thereof, of the changed content of the first provider/subscriber website; and

provide the updated changed content via respective subscriber web servers hosting the one or more subscriber websites.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the globalization manager engine updates the changed content for the second provider/subscriber website based upon locale information for the second provider/subscriber website, wherein the locale information defines any of a language, a territory, a character coding, a sorting scheme, or combinations thereof for the second provider/subscriber website.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the globalization manager engine further modifies a database associated with a subscriber website of the one or more subscriber websites to a Unicode database.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the globalization manager engine further establishes at least one subscriber/provider relationship between at least two of the plurality of interrelated websites.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the subscriber/provider relationship comprises links between content of the at least two of the plurality of interrelated websites.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the globalization manager engine transmits the updated changed content to a staging area associated with a legacy content management system used to maintain the second provider/subscriber website.

16. The system according to claim 10, wherein the globalization manager engine further determines at least one legacy content management system associated with a subscriber website of the of the one or more subscriber websites, wherein the globalization manager engine further transmits the updated changed content to the at least one legacy content management system in a file format utilized by the at least one legacy content management system.