Hierarchical Derivative Website Generation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current website development processes face challenges in allowing multiple developers to work on independent updates to a website simultaneously while ensuring that changes are propagated and prioritized, leading to potential incompatibilities and inefficiencies, especially in complex web-sites and multi-tenant data processing platforms.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating derivative websites by combining base website files with desired changes, creating a hierarchical content management system that allows developers to work on derivative versions of a website, which automatically reflect changes to the base website, enabling efficient tracking and propagation of updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple developers work on independent updates to a website simultaneously using conventional methods, then development productivity increases, but incompatibilities and conflicts between changes occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the website content into base files and derivative files, allowing multiple developers to work on separate derivative files simultaneously. Each derivative file represents an independent update that can be developed without interfering with other developers' work, thus maintaining compatibility while improving productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a file combination mechanism that acts as an intermediary between base files and derivative files. This intermediary systematically combines the files according to defined rules, ensuring that changes from multiple developers are integrated without conflicts, thereby maintaining reliability while enabling parallel development.
2Ease of operation
If developers create separate copies of base website files for independent updates, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity and file management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a hierarchical dimension to file organization by introducing derivative files that reference base files. Instead of flat copying, the system creates a layered structure where derivative files operate at a higher level of abstraction, making independent updates easier while the systematic combination process manages the complexity automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses selective copying where derivative files contain only the specific changes needed rather than complete copies of base files. This reduces file management complexity by minimizing redundant data while still enabling independent development work through the copying mechanism.
3Device complexity
If conventional website update methods are used, then simplicity of the system is maintained, but loss of time occurs due to manual tracking and propagation of changes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements an automatic feedback mechanism where the system continuously monitors and tracks changes in base files and derivative files. When changes occur, the system automatically propagates them through the combination process, eliminating manual tracking while maintaining relatively simple system operations through automated feedback loops.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically combining base files and derivative files according to predefined rules without requiring manual intervention. This self-service capability reduces the time needed for change propagation while keeping the system structure relatively simple through automated processes.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and methods for creating derivative websites based on base website and derivative site content. A content management system contains files representing multiple websites, i.e., a base website and one or more derivative versions of the base website. Each derivative version of the website consists of one of more files stored in a hierarchal chain of derivative folders that represent changes from the base website. A developer may thereby track which changes have been implemented and changes made by other developers higher in the chain of derivative workspaces than the current developer will be propagated to the current developer's derivative version of the production website.