Fragment-Level Dynamic Content Regeneration for Stale Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content delivery systems face inefficiencies in updating and delivering content, as changes are only reflected at intervals, leading to stale content and long update times, and lack automated coordination between content delivery and management systems.
Innovation Solution
An automated system that interfaces content delivery and management systems at the page or sub-page level, allowing for dynamic reproduction and caching of updated content fragments, ensuring timely reflection of changes across associated pages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all web pages are reproduced at regular intervals to incorporate content changes, then content freshness is improved, but time consumption and system resources increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides web pages into multiple independent fragments that can be updated separately. When content changes, only the affected fragments are reproduced and delivered to users, rather than reproducing entire web pages. This segmentation approach reduces update time and system resource consumption while maintaining content freshness for changed portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements differential updates where only specific fragments of web pages that contain changed content are reproduced and delivered, rather than updating entire pages uniformly. This local quality approach ensures that users receive fresh content for changed portions while avoiding unnecessary reproduction of unchanged content, thereby reducing overall update time and resource usage.
2Adaptability or versatility
If portal applications use dynamic scripting to assemble pages on-the-fly, then content adaptability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments web pages into reusable fragments that can be independently managed and assembled. This segmentation allows portal applications to dynamically assemble pages from pre-defined fragments using simplified logic, reducing system complexity compared to traditional dynamic scripting while maintaining content adaptability through fragment composition.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent pre-processes and divides content into standardized fragments before they are needed for page assembly. This preliminary action creates a library of reusable content units that can be easily combined through simple assembly logic, reducing the complexity of dynamic page generation while preserving adaptability through flexible fragment selection and arrangement.
3Loss of energy
If web pages are updated at fixed intervals, then system resource consumption is reduced, but content staleness increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic fragment reproduction triggered by content change notifications. Instead of updating fragments at fixed intervals regardless of changes, the system reproduces and delivers updated fragments immediately when content changes are detected. This dynamic approach optimizes resource consumption by updating only when necessary while preventing content staleness through timely updates.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a feedback mechanism where content management systems notify the delivery system when content changes occur. This feedback triggers selective fragment reproduction and delivery, ensuring that updated content is delivered promptly without requiring periodic full-page updates, thereby reducing system resource consumption while maintaining content freshness.
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AI summary
A system and method for provisioning 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 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.