Hyperlink Mapping Table for Context Migration
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Solution Overview
Problem
When content is moved from one website to another, hyperlinks often become invalid, leading to broken links that are difficult and time-consuming to replace, especially when the original context is not notified, causing laborious maintenance and potential information loss or misfunctioning in systems relying on these links.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that maps hyperlinks from a first context to a second context by creating a mapping table using a matching function based on the path schemes of the content in both contexts, allowing for automatic or manual replacement of hyperlinks, incorporating metadata for accurate matching and replacement rules.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is moved from one website to another, then content reorganization and branding goals are achieved, but hyperlinks become invalid and broken
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by creating a mapping table before content migration occurs. The mapping table stores the relationship between old hyperlinks (from the first context) and new hyperlinks (in the second context). When content is moved, the system can automatically replace broken hyperlinks using this pre-established mapping, thus maintaining hyperlink validity while enabling content mobility.
2Reliability
If hyperlinks are manually replaced after content migration, then broken links are fixed, but significant time and labor are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by automatically detecting broken hyperlinks and replacing them using the pre-created mapping table. The hyperlink managing server monitors for broken links and performs replacements without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining hyperlink functionality while eliminating time-consuming manual maintenance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the hyperlink managing server continuously monitors hyperlink status. When broken hyperlinks are detected, the system automatically queries the mapping table and performs replacements. This closed-loop feedback system ensures hyperlink functionality is maintained while minimizing manual intervention time.
3Adaptability or versatility
If hyperlinks lack metadata cues, then content can be moved more flexibly, but finding replacement hyperlinks becomes significantly more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by extracting and storing metadata (such as content titles, descriptions, and other identifying information) in the mapping table before content migration. This pre-extracted metadata serves as cues that make it easier to match and replace hyperlinks even when content is moved flexibly to different locations.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method and to map at one hyperlink (HY) from a first context (CX1) stored on a first storage to another second context (CX1') stored on a second storage wherein said subset of content is to move or has been moved to the second context from the first context to the second context, comprising the following method steps: - providing a first list of the content of the subset in the first context whereby a first path scheme of said at least one hyperlink is provided, - providing a second list of content in the second context whereby a second path scheme of at least one further hyperlink to be used in the second context is provided, - providing a mapping table, whereby the content of the mapping table results from at least one definable matching function whose inputs comes from the first and second lists and which maps at least one hyperlink used in the first context onto the at least one further hyperlink to be used in the second context, whereby the at least one matching function defines matching rules which are derived from the first and second path scheme and are applied in the case of meeting at least one matching rule, and - storing the provided mapping table accessible to a hyperlink managing server managing the hyperlinks associated to the first and second storage.