SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND INTEGRATING STRUCTURED CONTENT

• US 20120303575A1
• Filed: 08/10/2012
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David Crolene, Eric Felice, George Hitchcock, Mike Klinkenberg, Randy Matthews
• Original Assignee: David Crolene, Eric Felice, George Hitchcock, Mike Klinkenberg, Randy Matthews
• Inventors: Crolene, David, Hitchcock, George, Klinkenberg, Mike, Matthews, Randy, Felice, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 9,594,805 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/609
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24556 Aggregation; Duplicate elimination

Abstract

The present invention provides a centralized system and method for accessing, organizing, personalizing, and managing structured content located in disparate structured content systems. Structured content embedded within a particular system may be organized with structured content from other structured content systems. A processing module accesses the structured content located in the structured content systems using a conduit application programming interface. The processing module uses a display application programming interface to communicate with requesting systems. Metadata regarding the structured content is stored in a repository and the structured content may be used and viewed on a plurality of requesting systems.

Claims

1. A method for aggregating structured content, comprising:

accessing at least one of a plurality of structured content systems using a conversion module;

selecting a structured content object contained in the at least one of the plurality of structured content systems;

retrieving parameters that define the selected structured content object; and

storing the parameters in a metadata repository.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving system access parameters for accessing the at least one of the plurality of structured content systems.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving navigation commands from a requesting system; and

navigating at least one of the plurality of structured content systems based on the navigation commands.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

repeating each of the foregoing for a plurality of structured content contained in the plurality of structured content systems.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving parameters that define unstructured content;

storing parameters with respect to unstructured content in the metadata repository.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the storing parameters with respect to unstructured content stores system access parameters for accessing unstructured content contained in an unstructured content management system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dynamically updating the parameters in the metadata repository when structured content is created in one of the plurality of the structured content systems.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dynamically updating the parameters in the metadata repository when structured content is modified in one of the plurality of the structured content systems.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

searching the structured content parameters in the metadata repository.

10. A method for aggregating structured content, comprising:

receiving navigation commands from a requesting system;

retrieving system access parameters for accessing at least one of the plurality of structured content systems;

navigating at least one of the plurality of structured content systems based on the navigation commands;

accessing one of a plurality of structured content systems using a conversion module;

selecting a structured content object contained in at least one of the plurality of structured content systems;

retrieving parameters that define the selected structured content object;

storing the parameters in a metadata repository; and

repeating each of the foregoing for a plurality of structured content objects contained in the plurality of structured content systems.