Method and system for operating a content management system with specific editing capabilities
diting capability technology, applied in the field of methods and systems for operating a content management system, can solve the problems of inability to provide operators of the system with simple and intuitive solutions for using the system to achieve particular tasks, system engineers spending a lot of time and money in developing a customized system, and content management systems are not out-of-the-box ready. achieve the effect of efficient routine publishing tasks
Inactive Publication Date: 2009-05-19
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[0018]The present invention is directed to a content management system for receiving, editing, and distributing data across a network. The content management system is designed in a preferred embodiment to handle a certain workflow within an online publishing environment, which allows operators of the content management system to more efficiently perform routine publishing tasks.
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While these content management systems provide comprehensive technical infrastructures, they fail to provide operators of the systems with simple and intuitive solutions for using the systems to achieve particular tasks.
Allowing the system to be so flexible is actually a problem for most system engineers and operators of the system because the open architecture requires that the operators, such as human editors, be proficient, if not experts, in the design and operation of the content management system.
This further forces the system engineer to spend much time and money in developing a customized system for a specific application.
In other words, the content management systems are not out-of-the-box ready to operate for a given task.
A problem with content management systems in the past has been that database storage is limited in size for various stability reasons and is not easily scalable.
Another problem that exists is that the databases are not “farmable”.
By farming the database, the amount of data that can be stored in the database is virtually limitless.
One of the subtle, yet integral problems for content management systems, is the workflow that the system is designed to follow.
The physical process of publishing news stories is not the complete task as envisioned by quality news organizations and certainly not the purpose for using a content management system.
While the physical process is necessary, the actual steps to implement the physical process have, in the past, been cumbersome and time consuming by requiring extra unnecessary steps for the human (web) editor.
This intellectual process is very difficult to generate from the present content management systems available.
Workflow, as required to be performed to streamline a news publishing organization, for example, is thus impeded by content management system overhead.
Because of the rudimentary environment and capabilities of currently available content management systems, web editors are basically limited to reviewing the data in the database, copying the data into a content management system, and placing the data in a flat file system, such as a particular web page.
The currently available user interfaces do not provide sufficient information to assign the data by simply looking at the information provided on the front end of the user interface.
Because insufficient information is readily available, multiple operations are required to be performed by the web editor to determine target location(s) for the data to be assigned.
Even more troublesome to web editors is that all the data within a specific data record (e.g., a single news story) is contained in a text field so that a web editor is required to sift through various computer codes containing header information within a text editor in order to determine important information, such as author, headline, and date published.
To summarize the problems of currently available content management systems one must recognize that these systems are difficult to use, inefficient, unstable and expensive.
The difficulty for using the currently available content management systems is that these systems require the system engineer to develop and tailor his or her own system using a specific programming language, such as JAVA or HTML.
Working with the currently available content management systems also is inefficient in that they require several steps to perform what preferably should be a single step operation.
There are many other time intensive operations in currently available content management systems that make it difficult and frustrating for the web editor to do his or her everyday tasks.
Content management systems are expensive to buy, maintain, and operate.
Because the working environment on currently available systems is so inefficient, operating costs for the operator are quite substantial.
Maintaining presently available content management systems is also a formidable task as these systems have stability problems due to the techniques used for handling and storing the data.
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[0065]The use of the IDL 405 is very important for this particular type of configuration and is only possible for use because of the use of the object oriented database 402. By complying with CORBA or IIOP standards, a great deal of complexity for the system engineer is eliminated in that standard translation routines can be used to convert the data from a platform dependent to a platform independent system. In addition to allowing the system engineer to adopt a simple plugin translator, the use of the object oriented database 402 makes the present invention very powerful in that the object oriented database 402 is expandible with virtually no size limitations and allows the object oriented database 402 to be farmed. Another benefit of using an object oriented database 402 is the inherent stability provided by objected oriented databases.
[0066]Reference is now made to FIG. 5, which shows the second embodiment network 400 along with additional components with which the content manage...
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[0085]FIG. 9 represents a first embodiment flow diagram 900 showing a workflow for the present invention. At step 905, a human editor prepares data to be stored on the content server 305 for a traditional media source, such as a newspaper. At step 910, the data is stored on the content server 305.
[0086]At step 915, the data is transmitted to the bridge 310. The bridge 310 translates the data from machine dependent data to machine dependent data at step 920. At step 925, the data is transmitted to the content management system 320. The data is stored in the relational database 330 at step 930.
[0087]At step 935, a human editor (“web editor” or “operator”) selects data record(s) to be edited from the relational database 330 using a user interface 340. It should be understood that the web editor selects the data record(s) from a user interface 340, which displays the data record(s) in an easy-to-read format, thereby allowing the web editor to clearly identify the contents of the data re...
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The present invention is directed to a content management system for receiving, editing, and distributing data across a network. The method includes accessing the data stored in a database, presenting the data for inspection, and assigning the data to at least one target location for distribution. Another embodiment of the present invention is a user interface operating on a computing device for editing data in the content management system.
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BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates generally to a method and system for operating a content management system.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Content management systems have been used primarily as repositories for storing vast amounts of data. In general, these content management systems (CMS) are designed by engineers who are not day-to-day operators on a content management system. While these content management systems provide comprehensive technical infrastructures, they fail to provide operators of the systems with simple and intuitive solutions for using the systems to achieve particular tasks. The content management systems currently available provide an open architecture, which allows the system engineer for the content management system to then design and develop a customized system for a particular application or workflow. Allowing the system to be so flexible is actually a problem for most syst...
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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30G09G5/00G06Q10/10
CPCG06Q10/10Y10S707/99943Y10S707/99945
InventorDABNEY, MICHAEL BLANEHILL, DAVID THOMASTRUJILLO, LOURDES MARIAWASHINGTON, MELDA MARIELEE, RONALD GENEJENNINGS, III, JAMES C.FEOLA, CHRISTOPHER J.
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