System using content generator for dynamically regenerating one or more fragments of web page based on notification of content change

• Main Authors: LONG LARA, CHANG CHING-FU, REDDY PRIYA, MOSES DEAN, MCCALISTER MARK, COLLINS JEFFREY M, TULKOFF MICHAEL C, MARTIN MARK, YOU PUHONG, KIS LADISLAV, ZGARBA TONY, PETERSEN JOHN, DEFRANCE DAUN, CHASTON MILES, STAHL IAN, PATTERSON ROBERT L, RAJKUMAR N. ISAAC, NEMEC RICHARD, BOLANOS EXPEDITUS, HALE PETER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.09.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and method for the provisioning of dynamically generated content. One embodiment can interface a content delivery system and a content management system at the fragment level. Depending upon how a page is organized, a fragment may refer to a block within the page, a portion of the page, or a content item presented on the page. When a content item is updated and published onto the content management system, one embodiment of the invention can operate to track dependencies of managed pages and invalidate/validate fragment(s) affected by the change(s) accordingly. The updated fragment(s) may then be dynamically assembled on-the-fly or on-demand. The updated fragment(s) may or may not be cached. In this way, changes made to a piece of content can be reflected in all pages which utilize this content almost simultaneously with the changes to the content itself.