Automatic retrieval of themes and other digital assets from an organizational website

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9262385-B2
Application number	US-201213472778-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2012
Priority date	May 16, 2012
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for determining one or more themes for a portal site. One example process includes operations for identifying a reference to an organizational site that is to be used as a thematic basis for a new portal site. The reference is used to identify a representation of the organizational site. The representation is analyzed based on an analysis rule set. At least one potential theme associated with the organizational site is determined, based on the analysis, and the at least one potential theme is presented to a user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
identifying a reference to an existing organizational site, the existing organizational site hosted by an organizational website server, and the existing organizational site used as a thematic basis for a new portal site;
using the reference to identify a representation of the existing organizational site;
analyzing the representation based on an analysis rule set associated with a stylistic analysis, wherein the stylistic analysis comprises:
identifying source style information in the representation, including:
identifying a set of two or more predefined source element types to analyze;
for each of two or more of the identified source element types:
identifying a set of two or more element instances of the source element type in the representation;
for each identified element instance of the two or more element instances, identifying a source style of the element instance, the source style specifying an appearance of the element instance;
determining a frequency of occurrence in the representation for each identified source style in use for the source element type; and
for each source style, determining weighting information for the source style and for the source element type, based, at least in part, on the determined frequency of occurrence in the representation of the source style for the source element type and the number of element instances of the source element type; and

determining, based on the analysis, at least one potential theme associated with the existing organizational site based, at least in part, on the source style information, including the weighting information;

presenting the at least one potential theme to a user;
receiving user selection of a particular potential theme; and
applying the selected potential theme to the new portal site.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analysis rule set is defined, at least in part, by an administrator.

3. The method of claim 1 , where the representation comprises one or more of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), or a DOM (Document Object Model).

4. The method of claim 1 , where the analysis rule set is defined, at least in part, based on user input.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
presenting one or more elements of the existing organizational site in a user interface;
receiving user selection of one or more of the presented elements; and
defining the analysis rule set, at least in part, based on the one or more selected elements.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the at least one potential theme based, at least in part, on the source style information comprises:
identifying a set of target element types to include in the one or more potential themes;
determining one or more candidate target styles;
selecting one or more candidate target styles to include in the at least one potential theme; and
including the selected candidate target styles in the at least one potential theme.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein selecting one or more candidate target styles comprises automatically selecting one or more candidate target styles.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein selecting one or more candidate target styles comprises:
presenting one or more candidate target styles to a user; and
receiving an indication of one or more selected candidate target styles.

9. The method of claim 6 further comprising identifying target content to include in the new portal site and wherein:
identifying a set of target element types to include in the one or more potential themes comprises determining one or more target element types in the target content; and
determining one or more candidate target styles comprises determining, based at least in part on the source style information, a candidate target style for one or more elements occurring in the target content.

10. The method of claim 6 wherein:
determining a set of target element types to include in the one or more potential themes comprises selecting the set of source element types as the set of target element types; and
determining one or more candidate target styles comprises determining, based at least in part on the source style information, one or more candidate target styles for each element type in the set of target element types.

11. A system comprising:
one or more computers associated with an enterprise portal; and
a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
identifying a reference to an existing organizational site, the existing organizational site hosted by an organizational website server, and the existing organizational site used as a thematic basis for a new portal site;
using the reference to identify a representation of the existing organizational site;
analyzing the representation based on an analysis rule set associated with a stylistic analysis, wherein the stylistic analysis comprises:
identifying source style information in the representation, including:
identifying a set of two or more predefined source element types to analyze;
for each of two or more of the identified source element types:
identifying a set of two or more element instances of the source element type in the representation;
for each identified element instance of the two or more element instances, identifying a source style of the element instance, the source style specifying an appearance of the element instance;
determining a frequency of occurrence for each identified source style in use for the source element type; and
for each source style, determining weighting information for the source style and for the source element type, based, at least in part, on the determined frequency of occurrence in the representation of the source style for the source element type and the number of element instances of the source element type; and

determining, based on the analysis, at least one potential theme associated with the existing organizational site based, at least in part, on the source style information, including the weighting information;
presenting the at least one potential theme to a user;
receiving user selection of a particular potential theme; and
applying the selected potential theme to the new portal site.

12. A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory storage medium, the product comprising non-transitory, computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
identifying a reference to an existing organizational site, the existing organizational site hosted by an organizational website server, and the existing organizational site used as a thematic basis for a new portal site;
using the reference to identify a representation of the existing organizational site;
analyzing the representation based on an analysis rule set associated with a stylistic analysis, wherein the stylistic analysis comprises:
identifying source style information in the representation, including:
identifying a set of two or more predefined source element types to analyze;
for each of two or more of the identified source element types:
identifying a set of two or more element instances of the source element type in the representation;
for each identified element instance of the two or more element instances, identifying a source style of the element instance, the source style specifying an appearance of the element instance;
determining a frequency of occurrence in the representatio

Assignees

• Ebner Rachel
• Sap Portals Israel Ltd

Inventors

• Ebner Rachel

Classifications

• G06F40/154 Primary

  Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets · CPC title

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  Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD] · CPC title