Patent ID: 7415484
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of managing content at a network site comprising: generating at least two content types; generating a business content type wherein the business content type references the at least two content types and specifies at least one rule, wherein the generating is performed by using an application programming interface overlying a content management system; instantiating a data object from each of the at least two content types each of the content types corresponding to a different type of data, where each of the content types comprises at least one attribute selected from each of two distinct persistent data sources, where each of the two distinct data sources is configured according to a different schema; representing data with each of the data objects, wherein each data object represents data in one of the distinct persistent data source; instantiating a business data object from the business content type; associating the business data object with each of the data object; and managing the business data object according to the at least one rule, wherein the at least one rule comprises a workflow for the data object and managing the business data object comprises managing the data represented by each of the data objects in each of the distinct persistent data sources with the content management system according to the at least one rule, wherein managing the data comprises accessing or storing data in at least one of the two distinct data sources.