US 7,593,960 B2
System and method for least work publishing
Roger Kahn, Brooklyn, N.Y. (US); and Hareesh Kadlabalu, Port Washington, N.Y. (US)
Assigned to Fatwire Corporation, Mineola, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/885,681.
Prior Publication US 2002/0065976 A1, May 30, 2002
Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 707—104.1  [707/10; 707/102] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computerized system for content management that automatically determines when a static content page contains out of date content items as a result of changes made to the content items in a data source, the computerized system comprising:
a template engine for executing templates to generate a static content page, the template engine operative to generate a static content page comprising content items selectively retrieved from a data source and arranged on the static content page as defined by the template, each content item in the data source being associated with time stamp information to indicate the last time the content item was modified;
a dependency record for storing information regarding a relationship between content items that comprise the static content page and the content items stored in the data source and time parameter information associated with the content items that comprise the static content page;
dependency checking software for comparing information contained in the dependency record with information contained in the data source for each content item that comprises the static content page, determining through the comparison those static content pages that contain content items that have been modified in the data source, and instructing the template engine to re-generate a static content page that contains modified content items;
and
content management software to manage content items and operative to issue instructions to the dependency checking software to regenerate a static content page upon modification of a managed content item.