Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201349 | RULE CONDITIONS AND DYNAMIC CONTENT ALTERATIONS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes rule conditions that determine when the rules are applied, and additionally includes alteration instructions for dynamically changing content in the repository and alteration conditions that determine when the alteration instructions will be executed. Rule conditions and alteration conditions may include values from metadata related to content, values from anywhere in the content, values from the metadata of objects linked into the content, values from anywhere in the content of objects linked into the content, the user's current role, or literal values. Rule conditions and alteration conditions may also include various operators, including equals, not equals, greater than, less than, greater than or equal, less than or equal, contains, exists, and starts with, along with the negation of each of these operators. Providing rule conditions and alteration instructions and conditions provides great flexibility and power that greatly improves the functionality of a CMS. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201365 | METHOD FOR MULTICONTEXT XML FRAGMENT REUSE AND VALIDATION IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Method, article and apparatus for the reusability of data objects such as XML document fragments managed by a content management system (CMS). Embodiments of the invention may be used to enforce validation requirements for a multi-context XML fragment (i.e., for a fragment referenced in two or more documents managed by the CMS). When changes are made to a multi-context fragment, the CMS may detect any validation problems and take corrective action to resolve the validation problem. | 08-21-2008 |
20080222178 | Bursting Multiple Elements in a Single Object in a Content Management System - A content management system (CMS) allows defining multi-element burst rules that allow multiple elements to be bursted to a single object. A multi-element burst mechanism performs the bursting of multiple elements when a multi-element burst rule is processed. A multi-element burst policy allows a user to specify conditions that govern the function of the multi-element burst mechanism. The result is a CMS that includes multiple elements in a single object, thereby enhancing reusability of content in the CMS. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222183 | AUTONOMIC RULE GENERATION IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes an autonomic rule generation mechanism that autonomically analyzes existing content and generates rules according to a defined rule generation policy. Autonomically generated rules may include bursting rules, synchronization rules and linking rules. By autonomically generating rules based on the characteristics of content in the repository, the CMS can dramatically improve the ease and efficiency of managing a CMS. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222506 | Minimizing Accesses to a Repository During Document Reconstitution in a Content Management System - A content management system (CMS) provides a way to minimize accesses to a repository when reconstituting a document. When a document is first reconstituted, the CMS reads links in the document, reads the corresponding objects from the repository, then stores the values of those objects in fallback elements in the document. In addition, a list is generated that provides both original links to the objects in the repository and voidable links to those object, and the document is then modified, if needed, to reference the voidable links. When the document needs to be subsequently reconstituted, the repository is queried to determine which of the objects corresponding to the original links have not changed since the last reconstitution. If the object has not changed, the voidable link in the list is invalidated for the object, causing the fallback element to be used without accessing the repository. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222516 | DOCUMENT TRANSFORMATION PERFORMANCE VIA INCREMENTAL FRAGMENT TRANSFORMATIONS - A method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of document transformation processes is disclosed. For example, more efficient XML transformations may be performed against a source document that has incurred minor or incremental changes. Rather than apply a transform (e.g., an XSLT document) to a complete document each time any fragment of the source document is modified, a document management system may be configured to apply the transform only to the modified portions of the document. | 09-11-2008 |
20080243880 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF COMPONENTS FOR A COMPOUND DOCUMENT IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes a component identification mechanism for identifying components in a component-centric way that takes into account specified conditions for a link location in a compound document as well as component relationships and conditions. By using the relationships and conditions, a more intelligent choice may be made when identifying components for a particular link location. The identifying of components for a given link location in a compound document may be used by the content management system when auto-population is enabled, and may be used by the content management system to provide a list of candidate components to a user when auto-suggestion is enabled. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243897 | AUTONOMIC UPDATING OF TEMPLATES IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) autonomically updates one or more templates based on characteristics of documents in the repository, and based on specified criteria in an autonomic template update policy. At an appointed time, the CMS finds a template in the repository, retrieves an autonomic template update policy corresponding to the template, and determines from characteristics of documents in the repository whether the criteria in the autonomic template update policy allows autonomically updating the template. If the criteria are met, the template is autonomically updated without intervention by a CMS administrator. The result is a CMS where templates autonomically change as the content in the repository changes. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244382 | AUTONOMIC GENERATION OF DOCUMENT STRUCTURE IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) autonomically generates structure for a document when a synchronization rule references structure that does not exist in the document. A dynamic structure policy specifies at least one criterion that determines if and how the structure is autonomically generated. By autonomically generating structure in a document, a CMS administrator or CMS user (such as the author) is relieved of the manual task of generating the structure before the synchronization rule can be successfully processed. Once dynamically generated, the added structure may be auto-populated with dummy data or with default data specified in the autonomic structure policy. | 10-02-2008 |
20080250034 | EXTERNAL METADATA ACQUISITION AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) allows a CMS administrator to access data from an external source, such as a web page, and to correlate the external data with an attribute for a document type. When a user authors a document of that type in the CMS, the user may select from a picklist that includes values retrieved from the external data source. A metadata acquisition policy associated with the attribute may specify one or more criteria for determining if and when changes to the external data source should be automatically reflected in the attribute, and if notifications of changes to the external data should be provided to a CMS administrator. | 10-09-2008 |
20080250392 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH DYNAMIC TRACEABILITY BETWEEN CODE AND DESIGN DOCUMENTS - A content management system (CMS) for computer software provides automatic notification and correlation of changes in a design document with corresponding code, and provides automatic notification and correlation of changes in the code with one or more corresponding design documents. Traceability rules are defined that correlate which portions of the code correspond to which portions of the design document. A traceability update policy governs whether interested parties are notified of a change to either the design document or the corresponding code, and whether the change to one causes an automatic update to the other. The result is a content management system that helps keep the code and corresponding design documents consistent with each other so the system has accurate and consistent information at all times. | 10-09-2008 |
20090018999 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RETRIEVES DATA FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE AND CREATES ONE OR MORE OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY - A content management system (CMS) provides a way to include data from an external source as an object in the repository managed by the CMS. The CMS includes an external data mechanism that processes a document with a query to a data source external to the repository. The external data mechanism executes the query, and creates one or more objects in the repository according to the type of data returned as defined by classification rules. Each object containing data returned from the query is linked to that query via a formal relationship in the CMS. When an object that has a formal relationship with a query is checked out of the repository, the query corresponding to the object may be executed, and the data returned from the query may be stored in the object. In the alternative, the data may be used directly if a corresponding lifecycle policy indicates the corresponding query should not be executed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090024640 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF CONTENT RULE CHECKING IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes information in a document that correlates each element for which a content rule needs to be checked with the corresponding content rule. By including information in the document regarding which content rules apply to the elements in the document, the CMS does not process any rules that do not apply to the document. When the document is checked into the CMS repository, only the content rules specified in the document are checked. An editor allows checking an element against the content rules as a document is created. If the editor is on a client computer system, and the editor checks all content rules that correspond to the elements in a document, the document may be modified to indicate the checking of the content rules has already been performed, which allows the CMS to write the document to the repository without checking the content rules. | 01-22-2009 |
20090024670 | FRAGMENT RECONSTITUTION IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for improving the performance of a CMS system configured for bursting is disclosed. The CMS may be configured to automatically scan the CMS for unused document fragments and “clean up” the repository by reinserting the unused document fragments back into a corresponding source document. Thus, embodiments of the invention do not rely on beforehand knowledge and policy setting as current approaches. Rather, an autonomous method is used to manage document fragments by detecting and reinserting unused fragments back into their original documents. | 01-22-2009 |
20090037400 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RENDERS A DOCUMENT TO A USER BASED ON A USAGE PROFILE THAT INDICATES PREVIOUS ACTIVITY IN ACCESSING THE DOCUMENT - A content management system (CMS) monitors a user's activity for a document, generates corresponding usage data for the user, and binds the usage data to corresponding sections of the document. A relevance policy may be defined for a user and/or for a user's role. The CMS may then render the document to the user based on the usage data and the relevance policy. The rendered document may include displayed sections, hidden sections, and accentuated sections. The result is a document rendered to a user in a way that hides sections that are not of interest, displays sections of interest, and accentuates sections of high interest, all based on usage data that indicates how the document was accessed in the past. | 02-05-2009 |
20090063450 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AN AUTHOR OF MISSING CONTENT IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes metadata for each element in the repository. When an element has missing content that needs to be created, the repository is queried to identify elements which most closely match the metadata of the missing content. The metadata for these identified elements is analyzed to determine the authors for these elements which most closely match the element that needs to be authored. The authors are then ranked according to an author selection policy that may specify any suitable criteria for ranking authors, including author selection criteria, author ranking criteria, author filtering criteria, and author backup criteria. The result is a ranked list of one or more authors that are deemed the best choices of authors to author the missing content. The user may then request one of the authors in the ranked list to create the missing content. | 03-05-2009 |
20090063535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INDICATING REVIEW ACTIVITY OF A DOCUMENT IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) monitors and logs review activity for elements in a document. A review activity policy includes one or more thresholds that define one or more ranges that define corresponding review activity levels. A schema or document type for the document is annotated based on the logged review activity to indicate one or more review activity levels for one or more elements in the schema or document type. When an author edits or creates a document based on the same schema or document type, the schema or document type for that document is read, and the elements in the document are displayed to the user to indicate past review activity according to the annotations in the document's schema or document type. | 03-05-2009 |
20090063958 | ON-DEMAND BURSTING IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - When creating or editing a document in a content management system and specific content is needed, documents in the repository are searched for an element that has the desired content. If an element is found in a document in the repository that has the desired content, the element is bursted on-demand by extracting the element from the parent document where it was found and creating a document in the repository for the element. A link that points to the bursted document in the repository is then inserted into the document that needed the element. If the parent document from which the element was extracted is mutable, then the element in the parent document is replaced with a link to the bursted document. If the parent document is immutable, a copy of the content is created as a document in the repository, and a version policy corresponding to the parent document is stored so that if the parent document becomes mutable, the parent document will include information in the version policy to allow linking to the bursted document. | 03-05-2009 |
20090070288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING DOCUMENT CONTENT AND METADATA VIA PLUG-IN CHAINING IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for managing and updating documents containing specialized content in a content management system (CMS) by chaining plug-ins. Rather than create a unique rule for each specialized scenario, a CMS may be configured to apply a plug-in chain in an order based upon a type of document encountered and/or configured criteria. | 03-12-2009 |
20090077110 | USING PROFILING WHEN A SHARED DOCUMENT IS CHANGED IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes a content modification mechanism that detects a change to a shared document in the repository, and in response to the detected change, inserts applicability metadata in the shared document. The content modification mechanism may broadcast the change to each parent document. Each parent document votes on whether or not to accept the change. If enough of the parent documents accept the change (i.e. the votes meet a defined voting threshold), the applicability metadata is removed from the shared content. If not enough of the parent documents accept the change, the applicability metadata remains in the shared content, and a profile corresponding to the applicability metadata is created for each parent document that accepted the change. In this manner, profiling may be used to account for changes to shared content in a content management system. | 03-19-2009 |
20090077111 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGHLY TOLERANT AND ADAPTABLE CONTENT REUSE IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention generally provide for highly tolerant and adaptable content reuse in a content management system (CMS). The method and system allow an author to reuse fragments of content that are composed from a document structure incompatible with a document structure of a document which the fragment is being incorporated. In such a case, the CMS may be configured to generate a new branched fragment, based on the content of the original fragment, but composed according to the grammar of the document which the fragment is being incorporated. Additionally, the CMS may be configured to maintain a relationship between an original fragment and branched fragments derived therefrom. Further, any content changes made to the original fragment may be incorporated by any associated branch fragments. | 03-19-2009 |
20090083220 | PROFILING CONTENT CREATION AND RETRIEVAL IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system provides a profiling mechanism that automatically tags changes made to elements in a document with applicability metadata, and uses the applicability metadata when processing a request to the repository by a user to filter the query results according to a profile for the user. A profiling mapping policy defines roles for users of the content management system. When content is requested from the repository, the profiling mechanism inserts one or more additional request parameters based on the profile of the user. The results that match both the original request and the additional request parameter(s) are returned to the user. When the user views the results, additional filtering may occur to filter individual elements from the user that do match the user's profile. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083247 | AUTOMATICALLY MAKING CHANGES IN A DOCUMENT IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON A CHANGE BY A USER TO OTHER CONTENT IN THE DOCUMENT - A content management system provides a way to detect a change to one part of a document, and to generate a corresponding change in a different part of the same document. Dynamic inclusion rules define conditions that, when satisfied, allow automatically changing a link in a document to a new link when corresponding data in the document is added or changed. If a change corresponds to a defined dynamic inclusion rule, a corresponding query in the rule is evaluated according to the changes in the document. When there is enough information to run the query, the query is automatically executed in a background process. If there is a single link that satisfies the query, the document may be updated with the new link. If multiple links satisfy the query, the top ranked query result may be automatically selected, or the user may select which link should be included in the document. | 03-26-2009 |
20090106273 | AUTONOMIC GENERATION OF PROFILES IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) includes an autonomic profile generation mechanism that autonomically generates one or more profiles based on one or more patterns detected in a schema for an object. Autonomically generating profiles allows documents to be rendered in more efficient ways, avoiding the rendering of content that is not needed according to the profiles. The autonomic generation of profiles may be performed at the request of a user, when a user creates a new schema, when a user modifies an existing schema, or at configured times. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106303 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RENDERS MULTIPLE TYPES OF DATA TO DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS - A content management system (CMS) includes a rendering mechanism that receives a desired rendering action for a selected object in the repository, determines from defined rendering rules which elements in the selected object correspond to the desired rendering action, determines which of a plurality of applications corresponds to the desired rendering action, and renders one or more elements in the selected object that correspond to the desired rendering action in the application corresponding to the desired rendering action. The rendering mechanism may insert rendering markers in an object that define a type of data for each element in the object. In addition, nested elements may be rendered by invoking multiple applications that are active at the same time to simultaneously render different types of data. | 04-23-2009 |
20090112938 | INDICATING STALENESS OF ELEMENTS IN A DOCUMENT IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) indicates stale (i.e. outdated) elements in a document according to a stale content policy that specifies one or more thresholds that determine whether or not an element is stale, and if a stale element should trigger an auto suggest mechanism. When an author checks a document out of the repository, the elements in the document are displayed to the user to indicate the element's staleness according to the stale content policy. The auto suggest mechanism populates a related elements list via a query to the repository according to an auto suggest policy that specifies which elements can be included by the auto suggest mechanism in the related elements list. The related elements list is presented to a user, who may select one of the related elements. The link in the document to the stale element is replaced by a link to the selected related element. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119325 | AUTOMATED METHOD FOR DETECTING AND REPAIRING CONFIGURATION CONFLICTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide for detecting and (in at least some cases) repairing XML configuration conflicts in a content management system (CMS). One method allows a CMS to evaluate various configuration components and determine when those components may conflict with one another. If a conflict is detected, the CMS may be configured to notify an administrator of the problem, and in some cases, correct the problem. As a result, administrators may not have to carefully evaluate each configuration file associated with a document type definition for a given document type before creating or modifying a content processing rule. | 05-07-2009 |
20090125804 | GENERATING SCHEMA-SPECIFIC DITA SPECIALIZATIONS DURING GENERIC SCHEMA TRANSFORMATIONS - A method and apparatus produces documentation from customized extensible mark-up language (XML) by generating a schema-specific Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) specialization. The DITA specialization is generated from XML schemas which define the XML documents. During the process of generating the DITA specialization, a XSL transform is also generated. The XSL transform is applied to the XML file to produce a DITA file that follows the rules of the DITA specialization. Prior art transforms can then be used to convert the DITA file and the DITA specialization to standard documentation. Generating schema-specific DITA specializations may be an automatic process or a dynamic process under the direction of a user. | 05-14-2009 |
20090183066 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTATION FROM PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - A method and apparatus for automatically generating dynamic documentation from a product's configuration related data in a product configuration. A transformation engine incorporates a dynamic documentation mechanism that uses the product configuration file and other information to automatically generate dynamic documentation. In order to automate the creation of dynamic documentation, a new type of annotation element called a “tutorial annotation” is inserted into the product configuration file. The dynamic documentation mechanism provides dynamic documentation such as walk-through tutorials, configuration help, and animations based on the product configuration file and information stored in the tutorial annotations. The dynamic documentation mechanism ascertains a dynamic flow by reading the tutorial annotations and stepping through all of the relationships or dependencies of the product configuration file associated with the software product. The transformation engine then presents the dynamic documentation information in a tutorial fashion (e.g. step by step tutorial using animation). | 07-16-2009 |
20090193036 | DOCUMENT SPECIALIZATION PROCESSING IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) provides a DITA specialization processing mechanism that provides the full functions of a content management system across the full functionality of the DITA architecture. A DITA specialization is used to generate an import descriptor that describes how to import the DITA specialization, which may include required modules, stylesheets, catalogs, and content rules into the repository of a content management system. When the DITA specialization is imported into the repository, a compound document is created with appropriate parent/child links. Dependency relationships between modules in the compound document are then created. In addition, new XML content rules for the DITA specialization may be automatically generated from existing content rules. | 07-30-2009 |
20090259661 | Controlling Modification of Components in a Content Management System - A content management system (CMS) includes a content modification mechanism that checks a modification contract corresponding to a component in the repository, and determines if all relevant criteria in the modification contract corresponding to the component are satisfied before making changes to or allowing reuse of a component in the repository. The modification contract may specify a profile of authors that are allowed to modify the corresponding component. The content management system includes an author profile update mechanism that monitors modifications by authors to components in the repository, and automatically adjusts a profile of each author according to modifications made by the author. In this manner the rank of authors is automatically adjusted and the modification of components is controlled in a way that allows modification by those who are authorized yet restricts modification by those who are not authorized. | 10-15-2009 |
20090259662 | Controlling Reuse of Components in a Content Management System - A content management system (CMS) includes a content reuse mechanism that checks a reuse contract corresponding to a component in the repository, and determines if all relevant criteria in the reuse contract corresponding to the component are satisfied before allowing reuse of a component in the repository. In this manner the reuse of components is controlled in a way that allows reuse when stated criteria in the reuse contract are satisfied yet restricts reuse when the criteria in the reuse contract are not satisfied. | 10-15-2009 |
20100030548 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN A SECONDARY LANGUAGE WHILE INTERACTING AND VIEWING THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE VERSION - A method in one embodiment includes selecting an application under test; selecting one or more secondary human languages; starting a single instance of the application under test; receiving input via a first window displaying data from the application in a primary human language, the input invoking steps in a testing sequence; and evaluating a response of the application to the input received via the first window. A response of the application is output to each step in the testing sequence in one or more secondary windows to the one or more selected secondary human languages by: looking up text used in the step from the first window using the default language resource bundle for the application under test; finding the resource bundle “keys” associated with the default language text used in the step; using the keys to look up translated text used in the step within the secondary language resource bundles for the application under test; and running the automated step in the one or more secondary windows by substituting the secondary language texts to identify objects on the secondary screens using the test automation software. | 02-04-2010 |
20100030816 | Bursting in a Content Management System - When a document is checked into a content management system repository, parts of the document may be stored as separate chunks in the repository based on bursting rules associated with that document. These chunks may be associated with chunk-specific bursting rules several levels deep. A granular bursting mechanism processes each chunk in the repository using the applicable bursting rule. One suitable implementation to determine the applicable bursting rule is to recursively decide whether to use the rules for the parent document, or the chunk-specific bursting rules. Another suitable implementation to determine the applicable bursting rule is for each chunk, to check the parent document's child processing policy. If the parent document's child processing policy allows specific rules to be overwritten, the chunk-specific bursting rules for the chunk are used. If the parent document's child processing policy does not allow rules to be overwritten, the parent document's bursting rules are used. | 02-04-2010 |
20110029861 | Generating Simulated Containment Reports of Dynamically Assembled Components in a Content Management System - A content management system (CMS) uses a simulated containment report generation mechanism to generate a simulated containment report for elements in the repository based on logged properties that represent potential use of the element during dynamic content delivery that are not represented in formal relationships in the content management system. Properties such as probability, popularity, and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged and used to determine which document maps may potentially reuse a selected element. In this manner a simulated containment report can be created for an element that allows the user to see the document maps that are most likely to include the element. | 02-03-2011 |
20120203769 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RETRIEVES DATA FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE AND CREATES ONE OR MORE OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY - A content management system (CMS) provides a way to include data from an external source as an object in the repository managed by the CMS. The CMS includes an external data mechanism that processes a document with a query to a data source external to the repository. The external data mechanism executes the query, and creates one or more objects in the repository according to the type of data returned. Each object containing data returned from the query is linked to that query via a formal relationship in the CMS. When an object that has a formal relationship with a query is checked out of the repository, the query corresponding to the object may be executed, and the data returned from the query may be stored in the object. Alternatively, the data may be used directly if a corresponding lifecycle policy indicates the corresponding query should not be executed. | 08-09-2012 |