MANAGING CONTENT ITEM SYNDICATION BY MAINTAINING REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY BETWEEN REMOTE OR ISOLATED SYSTEMS

• US 20150199398A1
• Filed: 09/24/2014
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Baldwin, Nicholas A., Berry, Lee, Morentin, Eric M., Mallawaaratchy, Asela J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,747,327 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to managing content item syndication by maintaining referential integrity between isolated systems. A computing device receives a first content item, wherein the first content item has an external dependency with a second content item defined by a first reference. In response to determining that the second content item does not exist on the computing device, the computing device generates a second reference to replace the first reference, wherein the second reference defines a dependency of the first content item to a third content item. The computing device generates a link that directs a user to the third content item in response to the user attempting to access the second content item.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a first content item, wherein the first content item has an external dependency with a second content item defined by a first reference;

in response to determining that the second content item does not exist on the computing device, generating a second reference to replace the first reference, wherein the second reference defines a dependency of the first content item to a third content item;

generating a link that directs a user to the third content item in response to the user attempting to access the second content item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content item is associated with a syndication event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device subscribes data from a content library.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device supports one or more of the following content management environments:

development;

authoring;

staging; and

production.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content item is included in a change set received by the computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first, second, and/or third content item includes one or more of:

data;

text;

media; and

webpage template.