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

• Main Authors: Rajkumar, N. Isaac, McCalister, Mark, Bolanos, Expeditus, Hale, Peter, Martin, Mark, Nemec, Richard, You, Puhong, DeFrance, Daun, Chang, Ching-Fu, Reddy, Priya, Kis, Ladislav, Patterson, Robert L, Zgarba, Tony, Collins, Jeffrey M, Tulkoff, Michael C, Chaston, Miles, Moses, Dean, Petersen, John, Stahl, Ian, Long, Lara
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.12.2010

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.