SITE AND CHANNEL MANAGEMENT TO ACHIEVE CONTENT REPURPOSING

• US 20140304388A1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OT IP SUB, LLC
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Moore, Robert K., Dickerson, Robert S., Collins, Jeffrey M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,755,915 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• 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 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing content items of the type used in Web sites. In accordance with the disclosure, site objects, channel objects and content objects are associated with each other to form a hierarchical site structure. The content objects are linked to corresponding content items in a content repository, and are grouped together by association with channel objects in the site structure. Each of the objects in the site structure has an associated set of content services and can be deployed individually or in combination, while maintaining references to the related objects in the hierarchical site structure.

Claims

1. A method for content management, comprising:

at a computer, instantiating a content object from a class which inherits a set of content services from a parent class;

linking the content object to a content item residing in a content repository; and

managing the content item for multiple sites using the set of content services over a network, the managing comprising individually deploying the content object from the computer to an endpoint device supporting a site of the multiple sites.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

deploying reference data with the content object from the computer to the endpoint device, the reference data containing information for replacement of a version of the content object at the endpoint device.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

creating a reference between the content object and a channel object, wherein the channel object is instantiated from a class which inherits the set of content services from the parent class, and wherein the reference is owned by the content object or the channel object.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the content item is managed using the set of content services via the content object or the channel object, or a combination thereof.

5. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

deploying the channel object from the computer to the endpoint device in addition to or instead of deploying the content object from the computer to the endpoint device.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the endpoint device is capable of:

determining where the content object belong in a structure of the site; and

making one or more incremental changes to the site using the content object received from the computer over the network.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the set of content services comprises at least one of versioning, restoring, deploying, workflow, approval, authorization, archiving, reporting, categorizing, or business process modeling.

8. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by a computer having at least one processor to perform:

instantiating a content object from a class which inherits a set of content services from a parent class;

linking the content object to a content item residing in a content repository; and

managing the content item for multiple sites using the set of content services over a network, the managing comprising individually deploying the content object to an endpoint device supporting a site of the multiple sites.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the computer to perform:

deploying reference data with the content object to the endpoint device, the reference data containing information for replacement of a version of the content object at the endpoint device.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the computer to perform:

creating a reference between the content object and a channel object, wherein the channel object is instantiated from a class which inherits the set of content services from the parent class, and wherein the reference is owned by the content object or the channel object.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the content item is managed using the set of content services via the content object or the channel object, or a combination thereof.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the computer to perform:

deploying the channel object to the endpoint device in addition to or instead of deploying the content object to the endpoint device.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the set of content services comprises at least one of versioning, restoring, deploying, workflow, approval, authorization, archiving, reporting, categorizing, or business process modeling.

14. A system for content management, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform;

instantiating a content object from a class which inherits a set of content services from a parent class;

linking the content object to a content item residing in a content repository; and

managing the content item for multiple sites using the set of content services over a network, the managing comprising individually deploying the content object to an endpoint device supporting a site of the multiple sites.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:

deploying reference data with the content object to the endpoint device, the reference data containing information for replacement of a version of the content object at the endpoint device.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:

creating a reference between the content object and a channel object, wherein the channel object is instantiated from a class which inherits the set of content services from the parent class, and wherein the reference is owned by the content object or the channel object.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the content item is managed using the set of content services via the content object or the channel object, or a combination thereof.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:

deploying the channel object to the endpoint device in addition to or instead of deploying the content object to the endpoint device.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the endpoint device is capable of:

determining where the content object belong in a structure of the site; and

making one or more incremental changes to the site using the content object received from the computer over the network.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the set of content services comprises at least one of versioning, restoring, deploying, workflow, approval, authorization, archiving, reporting, categorizing, or business process modeling.