Content Locator for Direct Local Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content management systems face performance limitations due to their role as middlemen in data delivery, particularly when handling multiple requests for the same content over a short period, leading to delays and inefficiencies.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system that allows direct access to local content systems by providing content locators to remote systems, enabling them to retrieve or store content locally, rather than through the content management system, based on criteria such as distance and available bandwidth, and ensuring content integrity through periodic synchronization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If content is retrieved through the content management system, then content management functionality is provided, but data delivery performance deteriorates due to the middleman role

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent management functionalityVSAvoiddata delivery performance

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments content delivery into two paths: managed content access through the content management system for functionality, and direct content retrieval from local content systems for performance. This segmentation allows simultaneous achievement of both content management reliability and data delivery productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The content management system acts as an intermediary that provides functionality for managed content access, while local content systems serve as intermediaries for direct content retrieval. This dual intermediary structure enables both managed access and direct performance optimization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If multiple requests for the same content are handled through the content management system, then content management control is maintained, but delivery speed deteriorates due to repeated transfers

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent management controlVSAvoiddelivery speed

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

Content is pre-positioned in local content systems before requests arrive. When requests come for frequently accessed content, the system provides direct access to these pre-positioned copies, eliminating repeated transfers through the content management system while maintaining control through the locator mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates copies of content in local content systems that can be directly accessed. These copies enable fast delivery of frequently requested content without requiring repeated transfers through the content management system, while the locator ensures the copies are the authorized versions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If direct access to local content systems is implemented, then data delivery performance improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata delivery performanceVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The content locator serves as an intermediary that bridges the content management system and local content systems. It translates managed content references into direct access paths, enabling performance improvement without requiring complex integration logic in the content management system itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The content locator provides multiple functions: it enables direct content retrieval, maintains content management control, and works with any local content system implementation. This universality reduces overall system complexity by providing a single mechanism that handles multiple concerns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Speed

If content is cached locally, then access speed improves for frequently accessed content, but synchronization overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess speedVSAvoidsynchronization overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs periodic synchronization between the content management system and local content systems using the content locator. This periodic action ensures content integrity while allowing fast direct access in between synchronization events, balancing access speed with synchronization overhead.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS8447827B2Providing local access to managed content

Publication Date: 2013.05.21 OPEN TEXT CORP

AI summary

A method for providing local access to managed content is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from a remote host a request to perform an operation with respect to content associated with a set of managed content and obtaining information required to respond to the request. The method further comprises providing in response to the request a content locator usable to perform the requested operation through direct communication with a local content system associated with the remote host.