Patent ID: 8069154

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a repository of content in the memory; and a content management system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the content management system comprising: a plurality of rules that must be satisfied for the content to be checked into the repository, each rule specifying at least one criterion related to the content in the repository; a rule generation policy that specifies at least one criterion for autonomically generating a new linking rule that is one of the plurality of rules, at least one criterion for autonomically generating a new synchronization rule that is one of the plurality of rules, and at least one criterion for autonomically generating a new bursting rule that is one of the plurality of rules, the at least one criterion for autonomically generating the new linking rule comprising a first threshold for matching content for a first specified element and a second threshold for number of comparisons of documents in a first sample from the repository that satisfy the first threshold, the at least one criterion for autonomically generating the new synchronization rule comprising a third threshold for matching content for a second specified element and a fourth threshold for number of comparisons of documents in a second sample from the repository that satisfy the third threshold, the at least one criterion for autonomically generating the new bursting rule comprising a fifth threshold for matching content for a third specified element and a sixth threshold for number of comparisons of documents in a third sample from the repository that satisfy the fifth threshold; and an autonomic rule generation mechanism that analyzes content in the repository and autonomically generates the new bursting rule when the analyzed content satisfies the at least one criterion for autonomically generating the new bursting rule in the rule generation policy.