CUSTOMIZING WEB 2.0 APPLICATION BEHAVIOR BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A CONTENT CREATOR AND A CONTENT REQUESTER

• US 20080320079A1
• Filed: 06/21/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: MOORE, VICTOR S., NUSBICKEL, WENDI L., DA PALMA, WILLIAM V.
• Granted Patent: US 9,311,420 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/32 Multiple recognisers used in sequence or in parallel; Score combination systems therefor, e.g. voting systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

The present invention discloses a solution for developer customization of Web 2.0 applications based on relationships between a content creator and a content requester. In the solution, Web 2.0 content can be received from a content creator. One or more creator established customizations can also be received where the customizations are each a set of one or more users. In the method, a communication can be established with a user who requests the Web 2.0 content. It can be determined that the user is a member of a set specified by the content creator. The customization associated with the set can be applied. Web 2.0 content as modified by the customization can be served to the user. In one embodiment, users can also establish customizations, which are also applied to the served Web 2.0 content.

Claims

1. A method for customizing Web 2.0 applications based on relationships between a content creator and a content requester comprising:

receiving Web 2.0 content from content creator;

receiving at least one creator established customization which is associated with a set of at least one user that is specified by the content creator;

communicating with a user accessing a Web 2.0 application associated with the Web 2.0 content;

determining that the user is a member of the set specified by the content creator;

applying the customization associated with the set; and

serving the Web 2.0 content as modified by the customization.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

querying a user customization storage area for user established customizations;

discovering and applying at least one user established customization for the user; and

serving the Web 2.0 content as modified by the customization established by the content creator and by the user established customizations to the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each received customization is associated with customization markup, said customization markup referencing corresponding default markup for the Web 2.0 content, wherein the applying step replaces the corresponding default markup with the customization markup before serving the Web 2.0 content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the Web 2.0 application conforms to an Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) based specification, wherein the Web 2.0 application comprises an introspection document, a collection of entries, and a collection of resources each of which conforms to the APP based specification, and wherein the applied customization represents a modification to at least one of the entries and resources.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the Web 2.0 application is a speech-enabled application, and wherein at least one speech resource used by the speech-enabled application is provided by a speech processing engine remotely located from the Web 2.0 server and remotely located from a client to which the Web 2.0 content is served.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the applied customization is a speech processing customization that affects a manner in which the speech processing engine performs a speech processing task.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said steps of claim 1 are steps performed automatically by at least one machine in accordance with at least one computer program having a plurality of code sections that are executable by the at least one machine, said at least one computer program being stored in a machine readable medium.

8. A Web 2.0 application exhibiting variable behavior based on the relationships between a content creator and a content requester comprising:

default Web content established by a content creator and stored in a machine readable medium, wherein said default Web content is configured to be served to remotely located requesters by a Web 2.0 server; and

a plurality of creator established customizations that are stored in a machine readable medium, wherein each creator established customization is associated with at least one user, and wherein each creator established customization is configured to replace a portion of the default Web content when a Web 2.0 server serves Web content to a user associated with the related customization.

9. The application of claim 8, wherein said application is a speech-enabled application.

10. The application of claim 8, further comprising:

a plurality of user established customizations that are stored in a machine readable medium, wherein each user established customization is configured to replace a portion of the default Web content when a Web 2.0 server serves Web content to the associated user.

11. The application of claim 8, further comprising:

wherein said Web 2.0 application comprises at least one root entry that comprises an introspection entry and links to an entry collection of at least one entry and a resource collection, wherein the introspection entry, the entry collection, and the resource collection conform to an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP) based specification.

12. The application of claim 11, wherein end-users are able to add and edit entries in the entry collection and the resource collection.

13. The application of claim 8, wherein the Web 2.0 application is at least one of a WIKI application and a BLOG application served to browsers by at least one of a WIKI server and a BLOG server.

14. A service-side data storage area for Web 2.0 applications comprising:

a server-side customization data store configured to store content creator established customizations for a Web 2.0 application, wherein different ones of the customizations are associated with at least one content requester, wherein when the Web 2.0 application is served to a user by a Web 2.0 server, an identity of the user is compared against the at least one content requesters, wherein a positive comparison result causes the customizations associated with the compared at least one content requester to be applied to the served Web 2.0 application.

15. The data storage area of claim 14, wherein the customizations correspond to one of an introspection entry, an entry of an entry collection, and an entry of a resource collection, wherein the corresponding entry conforms to an Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) specification.

16. The data storage area of claim 14, wherein the customizations are applied by the Web 2.0 application in a user transparent fashion.

17. The data storage area of claim 14, wherein an identity of the user is determined based on information provided by a Home Subscriber services registrar with which the user has registered.

18. The data storage area of claim 14, wherein the Web 2.0 application is at least one of a WIKI and a BLOG, and wherein the Web 2.0 server is at least one of a WIKI server and a BLOG server.

19. The data storage area of claim 14, wherein the Web 2.0 application is a speech-enabled application.

20. The data storage area of claim 19, wherein the customizations of the customization data store apply content provider established customizations to a remotely located, server-side, turn-based speech processing engine which provides speech processing capabilities to the speech-enabled application when served to Web 2.0 clients.