Cloud-based content management system

• US 10,164,896 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2013
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Velasco, Marc B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thuong
• Application Number:
  US13/786,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20130185439A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,120 Days
• Field of Search: 709226, 709227, 709231, 709213, 709219, 709233, 709224, 709203, 726 1, 725 96
• 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

Abstract

Methods for providing content management services in a Cloud computing environment. A content management application and associated content is distributed across a set of servers in a Cloud computing environment. Requests for Cloud content management services are received from requesters that are using the Cloud computing environment. The received requests are analyzed to determine an amount of resources needed for responding to the requests. Based on the results of the analysis and a predetermined set of rules, the content management application is dynamically replicated to additional servers within the Cloud computing environment. Any instance of the content management application is capable of replying to any received request so as to maintain a high throughput of the Cloud content management services.

Claims

1. A method in a content management system for providing content management services, comprising:

providing content management services in a Cloud computing environment, wherein the Cloud computing environment includes one or more servers storing content items to be accessed by clients through a workloads abstraction layer;

dynamically creating instances of a content management application in the workloads abstraction layer to reply to received requests for content items stored on servers in the Cloud computing environment;

determining, by an instance of the content management application, based on a received request from a client for a content item and based on a social algorithm, which other client is likely to request the same content item;

determining on which servers in the Cloud computing environment one or more pieces of the requested content item are located, the one or more pieces together forming the requested content item;

retrieving the one or more pieces of the requested content from the servers;

prior to the other client requesting the content item, distributing the content item to the client and to the other client, respectively; and

assembling the one or more retrieved pieces of the requested content on the client and on the other client, respectively.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically migrating individual content items or repositories of content between servers within the Cloud computing environment, based on one or more of;

the size of the content items and the storage capabilities of the individual servers in the Cloud computing environment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein migrating individual content items includes:

in response to a deterministic or non-deterministic event, dividing singular content items or repositories of content, stored on a server in the Cloud computing environment into two or more content items or repositories, respectively; and

storing at least one of the divided content items or divided repositories on another server in the Cloud computing environment.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein migrating individual content items includes:

in response to a deterministic or non-deterministic event, merging content items or repositories of content that are stored on a plurality of servers in the Cloud computing environment; and

storing the merged content items or repositories on a smaller subset of the plurality of servers in the Cloud computing environment.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at a central server in the Cloud computing environment, a content item from a client;

attaching a version identifier to the content item;

dividing the content item into two or more pieces; and

distributing the pieces with attached version identifiers to other servers in the Cloud computing environment.