Patent Document ID: 7904595
Application ID: 10003315

Base Claim:
1. A globalization management system for managing resources of multiple interrelated data sources stored in one or more storage devices corresponding to a plurality of sites accessed through a communications network, comprising: one or more processors serving a plurality of target application interfaces, each of said target application interfaces being respectively coupled to at least one of the interrelated data sources through the communications network, each of said target application interfaces including means for converting a protocol of the respective data source to a predetermined protocol and said predetermined protocol to said protocol of the respective data source; and, said one or more processors executing instructions to function as a global management engine coupled to said plurality of target application interfaces, said global management engine communicating with each of said target application interfaces with said predetermined protocol, said global management engine including (a) a site-to-site relationship manager function for identifying provider and subscriber relationships, language translation, and localization requirements between the multiplicity of interrelated data sources, said manager identifying in said multiplicity of interrelated data sources a plurality of data sources which are site content providers and at least one data source which is both a site content subscribed and a site content provider: (b) a periodic data reading function for periodically reading data representing current content from the multiplicity of interrelated data sources identified as provider sites by said site-to-site relationship manager according to a predetermined schedule, (c) a comparing function for comparing said periodically read data representing current content with data representing prior content to identify content changes at a respective provider, site, and (d) a project manager function for automatically transferring said data identified as a content change by said comparing means to at least one of said interrelated data sources identified as a subscriber site by said site-to-site relationship manager and at least one data source identified as both a site content subscriber and a site content provider in said model.

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Claim 4:
4. The globalization management system as recited in claim 1 where said global management engine is implemented on a server coupled to the communications network.