Automated web site creation system

• US 6,732,332 B1
• Filed: 10/23/2000
• Issued: 05/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The und Aerospace Foundation
• Original Assignee: The und Aerospace Foundation
• Inventors: Borysewicz, Henry, Stevens, Joseph Paul, Horne, David K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H.
• Application Number:
  US09/694,224
• Time in Patent Office: 1,289 Days
• Field of Search: 707/513, 707/530, 707/10, 707/102, 707/501.1, 709/203, 709/217-219, 345/760, 345/853-854, 715/501.1, 715/513, 715/530
• US Class Current: 715/240
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

The present invention provides a system of creating Internet web content. In some embodiments, non-web content is received in a web content creation module, which automatically creates web content from the non-web content. In select further embodiments, an organizational database is then updated with information comprising web content structure information associated with the created web content, incorporating the web content into the web page.

Claims

1. A method of creating Internet web content, comprising:

receiving a stored document comprising non-web content in a web content creation module, the non-web content comprising data in a format that is not a web browser-readable markup language;

automatically creating web content from the non-web content, the web content comprising web browser-readable markup language data;

storing the created web content; and

updating an organizational database, the organizational database comprising web content structural information associated with the created web content, the web content structural information comprising web page structural data for the created web content such that the web presentation structural data is usable to format web page presentation of the created web content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a stored document comprising non-web content in a web content creation module comprises loading the stored document comprising non-web content from a specific directory location in storage.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically detecting the presence of new content provided to the web content creation module by automatically detecting new stored documents comprising non-web data placed in a specific directory location in storage.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically creating web content from the non-web content comprises automatically loading the non-web content into a conversion application and saving it from the conversion application as web content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic creation of web content from the non-web content occurs in a server system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the organizational database to reflect the created web content comprises creating a data record indicating a link between the created web content and other web content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the organizational database to reflect the created web content comprises updating a data record indicating a link between the created web content and other web content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the organizational database further comprises web content ownership and access rights.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the organizational database further comprises web organizational data records defining website structure and used in rendering website content presentations.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the defined website structure is rendered in presentation to a user as navigation menus.

11. A machine-readable medium with instructions thereon, the instructions when executed operable to cause a computerized system to perform functions creating Internet web content, comprising:

receiving a stored document comprising non-web content in a web content creation module, the non-web content comprising data in a format that is not a web browser-readable markup language;

automatically creating web content from the non-web content, the web content comprising web browser-readable markup language data;

storing the created web content; and

updating an organizational database, the organizational database comprising web content structural information associated with the created web content, the web content structural information comprising web page structural data for the created web content such that the web presentation structural data is usable to format web page presentation of the created web content.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein receiving a stored document comprising non-web content in a web content creation module comprises loading the stored document comprising non-web content from a specific directory location in storage.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, the instructions when executed further operable to automatically detect the presence of new content provided to the web content creation module by automatically detecting new stored documents comprising non-web data placed in a specific directory location in storage.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein automatically creating web content from the non-web content comprises automatically loading the non-web content into a conversion application and saving it from the conversion application as web content.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the automatic creation of web content from the non-web content occurs in a server system.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein updating the organizational database to reflect the created web content comprises creating a data record indicating a link between the created web content and other web content.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein updating the organizational database to reflect the created web content comprises updating a data record indicating a link between the created web content and other web content.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the organizational database further comprises web content ownership and access rights.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the organizational database further comprises web organizational data records defining website structure and used in rendering website content presentations.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the defined website structure is rendered in presentation to a user as navigation menus.

21. An information handling system, the system operable to perform functions comprising:

receiving a stored document comprising non-web content in a web content creation module, the non-web content comprising data in a format that is not a web browser-readable markup language;

automatically creating web content from the non-web content, the web content comprising web browser-readable markup language data;

storing the created web content; and

updating an organizational database, the organizational database comprising web content structural information associated with the created web content, the web content structural information comprising web page structural data for the created web content such that the web presentation structural data is usable to format web page presentation of the created web content.

22. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein receiving non-web content in a web content creation module comprises loading the stored document comprising non-web content from a specific directory location in storage.

23. The information handling system of claim 21, the information handling system further operable to perform functions comprising automatically detecting the presence of new content provided to the web content creation module by automatically detecting new data placed in a specific directory location in storage.

24. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein automatically creating web content from the non-web content comprises automatically loading the non-web content into a conversion application and saving it from the conversion application as web content.

25. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein the automatic creation of web content from the non-web content occurs in a server system.

26. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein updating the organizational database to reflect the created web content comprises creating a data record indicating a link between the created web content and other web content.

27. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein updating the organizational database to reflect the created web content comprises updating a data record indicating a link between the created web content and other web content.

28. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein the organizational database further comprises web content ownership and access rights.

29. The information handling system of claim 21, wherein the organizational database further comprises web organizational data records defining website structure and used in rendering website content presentations.

30. The information handling system of claim 29, wherein the defined website structure is rendered in presentation to a user as navigation menus.

31. A method of creating an Internet web page, comprising:

receiving a stored document comprising non-web content in a web content creation module, the non-web content comprising data in a format that is not a web browser-readable markup language;

automatically creating web content from the non-web content, the web content comprising web browser-readable markup language data;

storing the created web content; and

incorporating the web content into a web site via an associated web content record in an organizational database comprising web content structural information, the web content structural information comprising web page structural data for the created web content such that the web presentation structural data is usable to format web page presentation of the created web content.

32. A method of creating an Internet web page, comprising:

receiving non-web content in a web content creation module by automatically detecting the presence of the non-web content in a specific directory location in storage, the non-web content comprising data in a format that is not a web browser-readable markup language;

automatically creating web content from the non-web content via a conversion application, the web content comprising web browser-readable markup language data;

storing the created web content; and

incorporating the web content into a web site via an associated web content record in an organizational database, the organizational database comprising web organizational data records defining website structure and used in rendering website content presentations.