International Business Machines Corporation

Dieter Buehler

Matthias Falkenberg

Peter Fischer

Richard Jacob

Stephan Laertz

Thomas Steinheber

Juergen Schaeck

Uwe Karl Hansmann

Carsten Leue

Simon Naegele

Stefan Alfons Hepper

Thomas Stober

Simon Kirchmann

Holger Waterstrat

Nedim Karaoguz

Timo Kussmaul

Mark Carl Hampton

Eric Martinez De Morentin

Kathryn Heninger Britton

Yi-hsiu Wei

Hendrik Haddorp

Chunhui Yang

Stefan Schmitt

Oliver Then

Rachael Marie Huston Dickens

Kelley M Gordon

Daniel Kaulen

Armelle Parfaite Gaha Tchamabe

Stephen Laertz

Steffen Uhlig

Marco Berger

Andreas C Seidel

Ching-Yun Chao

Nataraj Nagaratnam

Anthony Joseph Nadalin

Thomas Schaeck

Timothy James Hahn

Eric Leonard Masselle

Boas Betzler

Stefan Koch

Walter Haenel

William Patrick Higgins

Donald N Jones

Andreas Stay

Thomas Hurek

Udo Schoene

Jan Paul Buchwald

Charles P De Saint-Aignan

Michael Marks

Ansgar Schmidt

Izidor Jager

Stephan Schmitt

Sybille Kurz

Bernd Beyrodt

Sven Stüven

A computer-implemented method for improving cachability of an API request result of a content delivery system may be provided. The method comprises maintaining a unique seed value per group of content items of a content type, and, upon determining that one of the content items of the group is updated, updating the seed value for the group of content items. The method also comprises caching one of the content items of the group together with the related seed value in a caching system and receiving, by the caching system, an API request requesting as API request result a content item of the group, wherein a parameter of the API request is a selected seed value.

Cachability of single page applications

Provided is a method for distributing rules across instances of a rules engine. The method includes determining a rule load for each set of rules of a plurality of sets of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a tenant of a plurality of tenants hosted on a multi-tenant system. The method includes combining the rule load for each set of rules into an overall rule load. The method further includes distributing the sets of rules across a set of rules engine instances such that approximately the same fraction of the overall rule load is assigned to each rules engine instance of the set of rules engine instances.

Rule distribution across instances of rules engine

A computer-implemented method for enabling static markup crawlability for a web application dynamically updating web pages client-side may be provided. The method comprises providing a web application identifiable by a web address comprising both, a static content block and dynamic content, and generating a static HTML page and pre-rendering the static content block of the web application such that at least a portion of static content of the web application is crawlable.

Crawlability of single page applications

A method, system and computer-usable medium for optimizing of search rules modifying search results. A rules service is initiated prior to executing a given search query from a shopper. A search rule evaluation is performed for the given search query and implementing a search rule that causes actions defined by the search rule to be applied to the given search request query. A list of search rules implemented or fired for each given search query is stored. A tracking record is built based on search rule evaluation that includes the list of implemented or fired rules and rule impact tracking (RIT) records.

System and method for optimizing execution of rules modifying search results

Integrating a plurality of third party service interactions into a portal including a Web content management system includes receiving a data structure, associating the data structure with a selected profile out of a plurality of profiles based on the origin of the data structure, and transforming content of the received data structure, using a declarative mapping associated with the selected profile, into an intermediate data structure. The intermediate data structure may be provided to a presentation layer of the portal. A signal causing a rendering of the intermediate data structure may be triggered via a portlet of the portal to a display. Captured input from the portlet from the intermediate data structure may be transformed to the data structure using the declarative mapping associated with the selected profile. The data structure may be sent.

Integrating a plurality of third party service interactions into a portal system

A computer-implemented method for importing external data into a content management system (CMS) may be provided. The CMS comprises a search and an authoring service. The CMS also comprises a dynamic page connector service enabling an import of external data into the content management system. The method comprises receiving address data relating to the external data, reading the external data using the address data received, selecting a page template from a plurality of predefined page templates, creating at least one new content item in the content management system comprising at least a data element of the read external data based on the selected predefined page template, and integrating in the at least one new content item data concerning a hierarchy structure between the at least one created content item and other content items.

Importing external content into a content management system

A method may include receiving, from a fair tracking client, a user profile containing user profile data. The method may also include receiving, from a service-provider web site, an access request to access the user profile. The method may also include determining to grant the access request. The method may also include permitting the service-provider website to access the user profile in response to the determination to grant the access request. The method may also include receiving a modify request from the service-provider website to add suggested user profile data to the user profile. The method may also include determining, in response to the modify request, to modify the user profile to include the suggested user profile data. The method may also include modifying the user profile in response to the determination to modify the user profile.

System and method for safe usage and fair tracking of user profile data

Provided are techniques for an adjusted consolidated digital experience. A contributed service is installed in a container. The contributed service is executed in a first runtime environment to display a first output on a display. A native service is executed in a second runtime environment to display a second output in the display with the first output.

Adjusted consolidated digital experience

A portal system comprises a portal connected to at least one social backend, a portal object generator for creating a page in the portal, and a backend processing component. The portal system further performs a method comprising: integrating functionality of said at least one social backend into said portal system; implementing association information as meta data entries containing information about a social object of said at least one social backend; receiving a notification about creation of new portal objects by an integration component; creating a new instance of a social object within said at least one social backend by said integration component; receiving a new identification from a newly created social object by said integration component; inserting new social object identification into meta data of said newly created social object; and representing said social object as a portal object to a portal user.

Portal connected to a social backend

A trigger message indicative of a potential change to a publishing workflow is received. The trigger message is processed, resulting in a workflow modification message that includes a content item identifier, a related semantic identifier indicative of a semantic of the workflow modification message, and workflow characterizing metadata. The publishing workflow is retrieved by selection using the workflow characterizing metadata. At least one publishing workflow action of the retrieved publishing workflow is modified based on the workflow modification message, and the modified publishing workflow is executed.

Dynamic and adaptive content processing in cloud based content hub

A method for controlling a web application state in a micro-service architecture may be provided. The method loading a current state of the web application via a server-side state micro-service from a server state store upon a navigation to a website relating to a server-side micro-service of the web application. The method also comprises triggering a state change of the web application by a user interface control of the client user interface component, transmitting the changed state from the server-side micro-service of the web application to the server-side state micro-service, managing the changed state by the server-side state micro-service together with a state identifier in a server state store, transmitting the changed state and the state identifier from the server-side state micro-service to the state client, and notifying the client user interface component about the changed state.

Adaptable management of web application state in a micro-service architecture

Methods of operating a web portal environment are disclosed. One such computer-implemented method includes: triggering rendering of a content item being specified by a feed-driven list definition defining a new web content type; reading entries of the content item by a first tag that creates a request attribute containing query relevant information; listening to the request attribute; creating a query; passing the query to a feed integration service; executing the corresponding remote API call; receiving a response from an external data provider; passing the response to the feed-driven objects extension plug-in; creating a rendering context which can be accessed by a second tag; and inserting the external data into markup by the second tag based on a set of predefined feed-driven list presentation components.

Operating a portal enviornment

Systems and methods of operating a web portal environment are disclosed. One such computer-implemented method includes: triggering rendering of a content item being specified by a feed-driven list definition defining a new web content type; reading entries of the content item by a first tag that creates a request attribute containing query relevant information; listening to the request attribute; creating a query; passing the query to a feed integration service; executing the corresponding remote API call; receiving a response from an external data provider; passing the response to the feed-driven objects extension plug-in; creating a rendering context which can be accessed by a second tag; and inserting the external data into markup by the second tag based on a set of predefined feed-driven list presentation components.

Operating a portal environment

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Dieter Buehler