SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT ON A NETWORK INTERFACE

• US 20170039173A1
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Published: 02/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bruce Zak
• Inventors: ZAK, Bruce, ZAK, Regina
• Granted Patent: US 10,606,930 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

The disclosed invention is a system and method (collectively the “system”) for the automated management of content on a network interface. The network interface can be a web site on the World Wide Web, an Internet location, an intranet location, an extranet location, or some other form of network interface (collectively “web site”). The system can automatically create applications and links to those applications without human intervention. Examples of automated applications include newsroom applications, calendar of events, employment opportunities, project portfolio, biographies, frequently asked questions, document library, category management, product catalogs, e-mail broadcasts, surveys, and newsletters. Fully normalized hierarchies of business rules and user profiles can be supported by the system to facilitate automation and configurability. Multiple content providers can manager a single web site in a simultaneous or substantially simultaneous manner. In ASP embodiments, multiple organizations can use the system to manage multiple web sites in a substantially simultaneous manner.

Claims

1. A system, including a computer, for managing content displayed on a web site or mobile application, comprising:

a plurality of configurable applications administered by the computer, wherein each configurable application includes a category of content stored by the computer and displayable to users of the web site, and wherein one of the applications is a biography application comprising biographical information about users of the web site;

wherein at least one of the plurality of configurable applications is generated by the computer at least in part based on inputs received from users of the web site, the inputs including at least one of text, graphics, sounds, documents, and multi-media content; and

at least one configurable link on the web site that points to at least one of the plurality of configurable applications;

wherein at least some displayable content is generated by the computer based at least in part on a user-configured business rule that manages displayable content for the configurable application by selecting from among the content stored by the computer before the displayable content generated by the computer is sent.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one configurable link is generated by the computer based at least in part on a profile attributed to at least one user of the system and at least one rule that is configurable by a user acting as an administrator and which applies user profiles to select what content stored on the computer can be viewed by which of the users of the system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the configurable link is a URL.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein:

one of the configurable applications is an events application that schedules and displays events based at least in part on inputs received from at least one user of the system;

one of the configurable applications is a communications application that displays communications provided by a plurality of the users of the web site; and

communications related to events scheduled in the events application are automatically displayed in the communications application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profiles may include information associating a user with a subgroup of all users of the system, and wherein the rule determines what content can be seen by which users based at least in part on whether users are associated with a particular subgroup.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one configurable link includes information concerning a user profile and information relating to which of the users of the system are permitted to view the configurable application to which the configurable link points.