Bea Systems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

James Owen

Rodney McCauley

Jalpesh Patadia

Alexander Toussaint

Christopher E Bales

Brad Posner

Gregory P Smith

Joseph Conti

Chang Choe

Manish Devgan

Jeffrey Elliot Mueller

Nathan Olson

Alexandre Toussaint

Timothy Noonan

Brad Possner

A method for integrating a plurality of content repositories into a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising providing credential information to each one of said plurality of content repositories, receiving authorization information from each one of said plurality of content repositories, wherein the authorization information indicates whether or not an authorization procedure succeeded, integrating into the VCR each one of said plurality of content repositories whose authorization information indicates successful authorization, and wherein each one of said plurality of content repositories exposes a first set of services to enable its integration into the VCR.

Federated management of content repositories

An application program interface (API) embodied on one or more computer readable media, comprising a first group of services related to integrating content repositories into virtual content repositories (VCRs), a second group of services related to manipulating information in VCRs, a third group of services related to searching VCRs, a forth group of services related to configuring VCRs, and wherein the application program interface is compatible with a content repository service provider interface (SPI).

Virtual content repository application program interface

A system and method for configuring a portal, comprising providing a first user interface operable to define and/or manage the portal; providing a second user interface operable to define and/or manage personalization of the portal; and wherein the portal can include at least one of the following portal resources: a desktop, a book, a page, a portlet, a shell, a look and feel, and a layout.

Systems and methods for personalizing a portal

A system and method for providing a lifecycle for content in a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising, integrating a plurality of repositories into the VCR, storing the content in the VCR, allowing the content to go through a set of states according to a lifecycle definition, and wherein the content is accessible through a logical namespace that encompasses the plurality of repositories.

System and method for schema lifecycles in a virtual content repository that integrates a plurality of content repositories

A memory for storing data for access by an application program being executed on a computer system, comprising a data structure stored in said memory, the data structure including or referring to a name, a content repository identifier, a property, a property definition, and wherein the data structure is logically part of a virtual content repository (VCR), and wherein the VCR represents at least one content repository.

Virtual repository content model

A system and method for viewing a first set of nodes in a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising, integrating a plurality of repositories into the VCR, storing the first set of nodes in the VCR, deriving a second set of nodes from the first set of nodes based on at least one criteria, rendering a view of the second set of nodes in an hierarchical namespace wherein the hierarchical namespace can encompass the plurality of repositories and wherein the second set of nodes is a subset of the first set of nodes.

System and method for viewing a virtual content repository

A memory for storing data for access by an application program being executed on a computer system, comprising a data structure stored in said memory, the data structure including or referring to: a name, a content repository identifier, a plurality of properties, a plurality of property definitions associated with the plurality of properties, and wherein the data structure is logically part of a virtual content repository (VCR), and wherein the VCR represents at least one content repository.

Virtual repository complex content model

System and method for content lifecycles in a virtual content repository that integrates a plurality of content repositories

A system and method for providing a lifecycle for information in a virtual content repository (VCR), that includes integrating a plurality of repositories into the VCR, storing the information in the VCR, and allowing the information to transition through a set of states according to a lifecycle definition. The information is accessible through a logical namespace that encompasses the plurality of repositories, and the information can include at least one of: content and schema information.

System and method for providing a lifecycle for information in a virtual content repository

A system and method for controlling access to a node in a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising, integrating the plurality of repositories into the VCR, storing the node in the VCR, associating with the node at least one of: a role and a policy, wherein the node is part of a hierarchical namespace that encompasses the plurality of repositories, and wherein the role and/or the policy can control access to the node.

System and method for controlling access to anode in a virtual content repository that integrates a plurality of content repositories

In embodiments, a system and method for submitting information to a lifecycle in a virtual content repository (VCR) is provided that includes defining the lifecycle wherein the definition includes a plurality states and one or more transitions to interconnect and impose an order on the plurality of states, providing to a first process access to the lifecycle wherein the first process can cause the information to transition from a first state of the plurality of states to a second state of the plurality of states according to a first transition of the one or more transitions, wherein the information is accessible through a logical namespace that encompasses the VCR, and wherein the information can include at least one of: content and schema information.

System and method for information lifecycle workflow integration

In embodiments, a system and method for providing a lifecycle for information in virtual content repository (VCR) are provided. A method embodiment includes defining a plurality states and one or more transitions to interconnect and impose an order on the plurality of states, wherein the information can be in a first state of the plurality of states and can transition to a second state of the plurality of states according to a first transition of the one or more transitions, wherein the information is accessible through a logical namespace that encompasses the VCR; and, wherein the information can include at least one of: content and schema information.

System and method for providing lifecycles for custom content in a virtual content repository

A system and method for providing one or more content services to a repository in a plurality of repositories that includes integrating the plurality of repositories into a virtual content repository (VCR), maintaining a logical namespace that encompasses the plurality of repositories, and providing the one or more content services to the VCR. The one or more content services includes at least one of: a versioning capability and a lifecycle capability. The VCR stores at least one of: content information and schema information. The content and schema information is accessible through a logical namespace that encompasses the plurality of repositories.

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