Patent ID: 7395277

Claim:
A method, comprising: providing a content framework system comprising a content infrastructure, a content flow management system, a content association system, a content manipulation system, a user interface, and a control interface, wherein the content infrastructure comprises content management systems, wherein each of said content management systems comprises content, wherein said content manipulation system comprises an editor, and wherein said content flow management system comprises an agent tool; controlling by said content flow management system, a flow of each of said content from each of said content management systems within said content infrastructure system, wherein said flow is controlled within and between each of said content management systems; interfacing, by said content flow management system, said content flow management system to said content infrastructure; generating, by said content association system, a first set of associations metadata comprising a first set of links for linking said content management systems together; monitoring by said agent tool, said content from each of said content management systems; adding to a registry by said agent tool, a description of said content from each of said content management systems based on said monitoring; adding to said registry by said agent tool, a first description of a first portion of said content from a first content management system of said content management systems and a second description of a second portion of said content from a second content management system of said content management systems based on said monitoring; linking by said first set of links, said first portion of said content with said second portion of said content; enabling, by said editor, a user to generate or modify said said content; interfacing by said user interface, said user to said associations metadata for said cross referencing; and interfacing by said control interface, an administrator to said registry for generating said associations metadata.