Content management system

• US 8,909,611 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wrp IP Management, LLC
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dinger, Thomas J., Eid, Hussam, Zempel, Jonathan Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruiz, Angelica
• Application Number:
  US11/428,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20070067306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,084 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1-206
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

A method of operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, the method including receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one of the content servers, accessing user information relating to one or more users at one or more locations, determining, from the user information, whether the received data is relevant to each user, and transmitting the data from the central server to one or more content servers according to whether the data is relevant for users at the respective locations of the content servers.

Claims

1. A method of operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, comprising:

receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one of the content servers;

accessing, by the central server responsive to said receiving data at the central server for distribution to the at least one of the content servers, user information relating to one or more users at one or more locations, wherein the user information contains the locations and job titles of users located at each one of the respective locations of the content servers;

determining, responsive to the accessing of the user information, and based on the user locations and job titles contained in the accessed user information, on the received data, and on locations of the content servers, whether the received data is needed by users located at individual ones of the respective locations of the content servers; and

selectively transmitting the data from the central server to one or more content servers responsive to the determining whether the data is needed by users at the respective locations of the content servers, such that the data is only transmitted to at least one of the content servers where the data is needed by users at the same location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the received data for distribution to at least one of the content servers comprises course material.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing a matrix of job titles, appropriate skills, and courses relating to those skills.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining, from the user information, whether the course material is relevant to each user by making a comparison between the user job title and the matrix.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user information comprises learning history.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user information comprises career progression.

7. A system for operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, the central server including at least one processor and a computer readable storage medium having program code stored thereon, the program code comprising:

program code for receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one of the content servers;

program code for accessing, by the central server responsive to said receiving data at the central server for distribution to the at least one of the content servers, user information relating to one or more users at one or more locations, wherein the user information contains the locations and job titles of users located at each one of the respective locations of the content servers;

program code for determining, responsive to the accessing of the user information, and based on the user locations and job titles contained in the accessed user information, on the received data, and on locations of the content servers, whether the received data is needed by users located at individual ones of the respective locations of the content servers; and

program code for selectively transmitting the data from the central server to one or more content servers responsive to the determining whether the data is needed by users at the respective locations of the content servers, such that the data is only transmitted to at least one of the content servers where the data is needed by users at the same location.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the user information includes user location and user job title.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the received data for distribution to at least one of the content servers comprises course material.

10. The system of claim 7, the program code further comprising:

program code for accessing a matrix of job titles, appropriate skills, and courses relating to those skills.

11. The system of claim 10, the program code further comprising:

program code for determining, from the user information, whether the course material is relevant to each user by making a comparison between the user job title and the matrix.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the user information comprises learning history.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the user information comprises career progression.