International Business Machines Corporation

Richard Jacob

Stephan Laertz

Matthias Falkenberg

Dieter Buehler

Peter Fischer

Timo Kussmaul

Juergen Schaeck

Simon Naegele

Thomas Steinheber

Simon Kirchmann

Daniel Blum

Oliver Then

Jan Paul Buchwald

Andreas Nauerz

Carsten Leue

Stephen Laertz

Andreas C Seidel

Marco Berger

Stefan Liesche

Sascha Sambale

Andreas Fried

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 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

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

The method includes automatic creation of mapping definitions. The method further includes analyzing an external data structure, wherein the external data structure has one or more elements. The method further includes determining a path length and a number of occurrences for each element of a first set of elements of the one or more elements. The method further includes generating at least one query statement for the first set of elements. The method further includes generating mapping definitions based, at least in part on the at least one generated query statement and the path length of each element of the first set of elements.

Generation of mapping definitions for content management system

A portal is connected to a social backend. The portal comprises an integration component communicating with the social backend. Functionality of the social backend is integrated into the portal system by creating at least one portal object that is associated with at least one social object. The integration component comprises a portal listening component listening to events triggered by running applications of the portal, and creates an event list by filtering events associated with the social backend. A backend processing component keeps portal applications in synchronization with the social backend regarding changes on a portal side. A backend query component queries application programming interfaces of the social backend for current social objects and their states. A portal model processing component calculates actions based on passed in states of current social objects from the backend query component, and invokes corresponding application programming interface calls on the portal.

A method for creating a personalized content layout for a user interface is provided. The method may comprise providing a content layout framework, monitoring and storing usage data over time of a content fragment, displayed in the content layout framework, promoting or demoting the content fragment in respect to its presentation within the content layout framework based on a first value of a first parameter of the parameter model, wherein the promotion or demotion uses an abrasion factor, such that a content fragment appearance degrades or increases from session to session of usage of the content layout framework depending on a predefined function deployed to the first value of the first parameter of the parameter model.

Personalized content layout

A request for a web page is received from a client device at a web server. At least a source web application and a target web application relating to the requested web page is identified. An output from the source web application and an output from the target web application are requested. A source style of the source web application is requested. The source style is combined with the output of the source web application and the output of the target web application into the requested web page. The requested web page is sent to the client device.

Consistent web application presentation

In a method of and system for enforcing authentication strength for remote portlets, a portlet is provided by a producer portal and consumed as remote portlet by a consumer portal. The producer portal defines an authentication strength level requirement for the portlet. A user requests the remote portlet from the consumer portal. The consumer portal authenticates the user with a particular authentication method that implies a particular authentication strength level. The producer portal authenticates the consumer portal with a particular authentication method that implies a particular authentication strength assertion level. The consumer portal requests the portlet from the producer portal with an assertion of the authentication strength level of the user. The producer portal rejects the request from the consumer portal if the authentication strength level of the user is less than the authentication strength level requirement for the portlet. The producer portal also rejects the request from the consumer portal if the authentication strength assertion level of the consumer portal is not high enough to assert the authentication strength level of the user. The producer portal accepts the request from the consumer portal only if the authentication strength level of the user is not less than the authentication strength level requirement for the portlet and the authentication strength assertion level of the consumer portal is high enough to assert the authentication strength level of the user.

Method of and system for enforcing authentication strength for remote portlets

A method and computer program product for pre-rendering web content is described. A method may comprise receiving, via a computing device, an implicit indication of a request for web content associated with a web element. The method may further comprise pre-rendering the web content associated with the web element based upon, at least in part, the implicit indication of the request for the web content.

Pre-rendering web content

The present invention is directed to a method and system to be performed by a WSRP consumer portal server for accessing a remote network resource addressed by a respective resource URL in a web portal infrastructure comprising at least a WSRP Consumer Portal connectable to a client Browser requesting the remote network resource, and a remote communication partner. A method for accessing remote network resources, a WSRP consumer portal includes: in response to an incoming client request for a web page, determining if remote portlets are comprised of said requested web page; for remote portlets sending a request for a respective portlet markup to a producer of said remote portlets; receiving a response to said request comprising a markup document including encoded representations of network URLs of a respective remote network resource; searching said response for producer encoded resource URLs of remote network resources, resulting in a set of found URLs; generating for each producer encoded resource URL a set of rewritten URLs, wherein each rewritten URL provides an access performable by said client to said remote resource; generating from said received markup document a new markup document comprising an executable code fragment, having the function to be executed by the client to select a specific rewritten URL out of said set of rewritten URLs; and sending a newly assembled web page comprising said new markup document for remote portlets and an unchanged markup document for non-remote portlets.

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