LIVE EDITING AND PUBLISHING OF DOCUMENTS WITHIN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING A HYBRID DRAFT AUTHORIZATION WORKFLOW

• US 20170277905A1
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Published: 09/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: inContact Incorporated (Nice Ltd)
• Original Assignee: MindTouch, Inc.
• Inventors: Bjorg, Steve, Gorokhov, Yuri
• Granted Patent: US 9,864,876 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• 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 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management

Abstract

A system for live editing and publishing of documents within a content management system using a hybrid draft authorization workflow within an authoring component used for content creation, draft editing and/or published editing, to control and manage access, permissions, documents revisions, histories, and associated content in a real-time environment without a need for server administrator approval, as well as streamlined to avoid iterative revision issues, merging conflicts and associated complexities of collaborative editing.

Claims

1. A system for live editing and publishing of documents within a content management system using a hybrid draft authorization workflow, comprising:

a content workflow server computer comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions is configured to;

(a) assign permissions for device protocols and accessibility to pages;

(b) create a page from a draft template, a blank page or an existing page as specified;

(c) store the page for future use in a draft database or a published database;

(d) organize pages in a hybrid-draft hierarchy of a draft stack or a published stack;

(e) access the draft stack or the published stack of stored pages from the draft database or the published database for editing, the draft stack or the published stack of stored pages accessed using a version control database; and

(f) publish pages to the content management system;

wherein the content workflow server allows creation of content directly as a published document and allows live editing of published documents in real time.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a content management server computer comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions is configured to;

(a) create an index of content from a content database, an attachments database and a version control database;

(b) search for content within the content database, the attachments database and/or the version control database;

(c) retrieve content from a draft stack or a published stack of the content database, the attachments database and/or the version control database for viewing or editing;

(d) customize content to create a new draft page, a new published page or a draft revision of a published page;

(e) enhance page customization by incorporating drag-and-drop functionality within the draft page;

(f) discard pages deemed unsuitable for publishing to a version control database;

(g) record changes made to pages, whether in form of edits, deletions, additions or formatting;

(h) store customized published pages in the version control database; and

(i) organize hybrid-draft page hierarchies in the version control database to enhance search functions and results.