Content update notification

• US 20050119910A1
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Schneider, Haim
• Application Number:
  US10/997,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20050119910A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

A content update notification system including a content update sub-system including a session manager operative to associate a web page currently active at a client, a subscription manager operative to create the subscription on a publish/subscribe server, an event buffer operative to store a content update notification received from the publish/subscribe server in response to the content update notification being received from a content provider and in connection with the subscription, and a monitor operative to receive the content update notification from the content update sub-system and provide an indication in association with the web page that a content update is available for the web page.

Claims

1. A content update notification system comprising:

a content update sub-system comprising;

a session manager operative to associate a web page currently active at a client;

a subscription manager operative to create said subscription on a publish/subscribe server;

an event buffer operative to store a content update notification received from said publish/subscribe server in response to said content update notification being received from a content provider and in connection with said subscription; and

a monitor operative to receive said content update notification from said content update sub-system and provide an indication in association with said web page that a content update is available for said web page.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a server operative to:

host a web site including at least one software component for dynamically generating at least one specialized content area of said web page, and

provide said web page for display on a client computer.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein said server is a portal server and wherein said web site is a portal.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein said software component is a portlet.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said monitor maintains a persistent connection with said content update sub-system through which said monitor receives said content update notification.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said monitor periodically polls said content update sub-system for the existence of said content update notification.

7. A method for providing a notification of updated content, the method comprising:

associating a web page currently active at a client with a subscription for content therefor;

receiving a content update notification from a content provider in connection with said subscription; and

providing an indication in association with said web page that a content update is available for said web page.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

creating said subscription on a publish/subscribe server; and

storing said content update received from said publish/subscribe server in response to a publication received from said content provider and in connection with said subscription.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

dynamically generating said web page including at least one specialized content area; and

providing said web page and said monitor to a client computer.

10. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program comprising:

a first code segment operative to associate a web page currently active at a client;

a second code segment operative to receive a content update from a content provider in connection with said subscription; and

a third code segment operative to provide an indication in association with said web page that a content update is available for said web page.

11. The computer program according to claim 10, further comprising:

a fourth code segment operative to create said subscription on a publish/subscribe server; and

a fifth code segment operative to store said content update received from said publish/subscribe server in response to a publication received from said content provider and in connection with said subscription.