AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF ONLINE CONTENT FOR SHARING

• US 20080208969A1
• Filed: 02/28/2007
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Van Riel, Henri Han
• Granted Patent: US 8,683,342 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1873 Versioning file systems, temporal file systems, e.g. file system supporting different historic versions of files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• 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 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to combing websites that can be edited over the Internet using distributed revision control. This also makes it possible to use writable web sites while not being connected to the Internet. In some embodiments, the present invention is applied to wikis. When a wiki reconnects, differences are automatically sent over and changes from other wikis are merged automatically. Wikis may also be synchronized on a periodic or event driven basis. Embodiments of the present invention may also be used for load balancing between wikis, or to share information with users who can only occasionally connect to the Internet.

Claims

1. A method of presenting shared content in a website, said method comprising:

sending information that indicates categories of desired content at another website; and

receiving the desired content from the other website.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving content from the other website; and

filtering the content from the other website based on the categories of desired content.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering content received from the other website based on categories of undesired content.

4. An apparatus comprising means configured to perform the method of claim 1.

5. A method of sharing content with another website, said method comprising:

receiving information that indicates categories of desired content at another website; and

sending the desired content to the other website.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

determining content that is present on the other website; and

sending content absent from the other website.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein sending the desired content to the other website comprises filtering content based on categories of undesired content.

8. An apparatus comprising means configured to perform the method of claim 5.

9. A method of determining relevance of content for sharing, said method comprising:

receiving information that indicates desired categories of content;

receiving information that indicates how the content was categorized; and

determining a relevance of the content to the desired categories based on a commonality of a categorization and a fraction of how often the content was categorized in a category.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving information that indicates desired categories of content comprises receiving a set of tags.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining the relevance of the content comprises:

determining a distribution of how the content was categorized;

determining a threshold for the relevance; and

selecting the content that was categorized based on the threshold.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining the relevance of the content comprises:

determining a mean value of how often the content was categorized in a category;

determining a threshold for the relevance; and

selecting the content that was categorized based on the threshold.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining the relevance of the content comprises:

determining a median value of how often the content was categorized in a category;

determining a threshold for the relevance; and

selecting the content that was categorized based on the threshold

14. An apparatus comprising means configured to perform the method of claim 9.

15. A distributed website system configured to automatically select content for sharing with another website, said system comprising:

an interface configured to receive information that indicates desired categories of content by another website; and

a processor configured to calculate how the content was categorized and determine a relevance of the content to the desired categories based on a commonality of a categorization and a fraction of how often the content was categorized in a category.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to calculate a percentile distribution of content is categorized in a category.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to calculate a mean value of how often content is categorized in a category.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to calculate a median value of how often content is categorized in a category.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to filter the content based on its relevance to desired categories by the other website and share the relevant content with the other website.