System using content generator for dynamically regenerating one or more fragments of web page based on notification of content change

US7860820B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Vignette Software LLC · US

Inventors

• N. Isaac Rajkumar · Austin, US
• Mark McCalister · Austin, US
• Expeditus Bolanos · Pflugerville, US
• Peter Hale · San Francisco, US
• Mark Martin · Cedar Park, US
• Richard Nemec · North Andover, US
• Puhong You · Austin, US
• Daun DeFrance · Deerfield, US
• Ching-Fu Chang · Austin, US
• Priya Reddy · Austin, US
• Ladislav Kis · North Andover, US
• Robert L. Patterson · Valley Center, US
• Tony Zgarba · Round Rock, US
• Jeffrey M. Collins · Austin, US
• Michael C. Tulkoff · Austin, US
• Miles Chaston · San Francisco, US
• Dean Moses · Berkeley, US
• John Petersen · San Francisco, US
• Ian Stahl · Austin, US
• Lara Long · Mountain View, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2006
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/568
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and method for the provisioning of dynamically generated content. One embodiment can interface a content delivery system and a content management system at the fragment level. Depending upon how a page is organized, a fragment may refer to a block within the page, a portion of the page, or a content item presented on the page. When a content item is updated and published onto the content management system, one embodiment of the invention can operate to track dependencies of managed pages and invalidate/validate fragment(s) affected by the change(s) accordingly. The updated fragment(s) may then be dynamically assembled on-the-fly or on-demand. The updated fragment(s) may or may not be cached. In this way, changes made to a piece of content can be reflected in all pages which utilize this content almost simultaneously with the changes to the content itself.