Automated Syndication of Licensed Third-Party Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional content management approaches for enterprises are resource-intensive and error-prone when managing and publishing third-party content across multiple applications and platforms, leading to operational and design-related challenges.

Innovation Solution

The development of a method for automatically syndicating licensed third-party content across enterprise webpages using dynamic content syndication files, which include fields related to enterprise product information, content format, license governance, and distribution information, processed through an API to facilitate seamless publication across multiple user interfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional content management approaches are used to manage and publish third-party content across multiple applications and platforms, then content distribution can be achieved, but the process becomes resource-intensive and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent distribution efficiencyVSAvoidresource intensity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple individual content management processes into a single automated syndication system that handles content distribution across multiple applications and platforms simultaneously. The syndication file serves as a unified interface that consolidates what would otherwise require separate manual processes for each application, thereby improving productivity while reducing resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service through automated processing where the syndication engine automatically reads syndication files, extracts content information, and publishes content across multiple applications without requiring manual intervention. This automation eliminates resource-intensive manual operations while maintaining accurate content distribution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent distribution efficiencyVSAvoiderror rate

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The syndication system implements feedback mechanisms where the syndication engine automatically validates syndication files against defined schemas, checks for content consistency across applications, and monitors publication status. This automated feedback loop detects and corrects errors before they propagate, significantly reducing the error rate while maintaining efficient content distribution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical content management processes with an automated electronic syndication system. The engine programmatically processes syndication files, extracts content data, and publishes to multiple applications through automated interfaces, eliminating human errors associated with manual copy-paste and manual configuration operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If individual processes are used for managing and publishing third-party content across multiple applications, then each application can be managed independently, but the overall process becomes complex and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveapplication-specific content managementVSAvoidprocess complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The syndication engine provides universal functionality by serving as a single platform that can publish content to multiple different applications and platforms through standardized interfaces. The engine adapts to different target applications while maintaining a unified content management approach, thereby reducing process complexity without sacrificing application-specific adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The syndication file acts as an intermediary between content sources and multiple target applications. It provides a standardized intermediate format that decouples the content creation process from the publication process, allowing content to be managed once and distributed to multiple applications without requiring complex point-to-point integration logic.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11343336B1Automatically syndicating licensed third-party content across enterprise webpages

Publication Date: 2022.05.24 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically syndicating licensed third-party content across enterprise webpages are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes generating, in connection with licensed third-party content, one or more licensed third-party content syndication files comprising a set of fields related to enterprise product information, licensed third-party content format information, license-related governance information, and enterprise webpage-based distribution information; processing at least a portion of the licensed third-party content using the one or more licensed third-party content syndication files; and automatically syndicating the at least a portion of the licensed third-party content, in accordance with the processing, across multiple user interfaces associated with one or more enterprise webpages, using at least one application programming interface.