Patent application EP17397503A (EP), filed 2017-01-24
Publication number: EP3200103A1
Title: A CENTRALIZED CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH AN INTELLIGENT METADATA LAYER, AND A METHOD THEREOF
Abstract: The invention relates to an intelligent metadata layer for value-based management of information across multiple data repositories. A method according to an embodiment comprises managing data in one or more data repositories via a centralized content management system, wherein said one or more data repositories are connected to said centralized content management system, wherein said centralized content management system provides an access for one or more client devices to data items in said one or more connected data repositories, wherein the method further comprises identifying a data item by the centralized content management system in at least one of the one or more data repositories; creating centralized content management metadata for said identified data item; and associating the created centralized content management metadata with said identified data item.
IPC codes: G06F  17/    30            A I
G06F  16/    27            A I
G06F  16/   901            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: A method, comprising
number: 2
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing said centralized content management metadata as a metadata object in the centralized content management system.
number: 3
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing said centralized content management metadata as a metadata object in a location other than the data repository in which said identified data item resides.
number: 4
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising deriving centralized content management metadata from the content of the data item.
number: 5
text: The method according to claim 1, wherein the data item is identified based on a user input.
number: 6
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising indexing the content of the one or more data repositories.
number: 7
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising moving the identified data item from a first data repository to a second data repository.
number: 8
text: The method according to claim 7, further comprising adding a link in the first data repository to point to the moved data item.
number: 9
text: The method according to claim 1, wherein the centralized content management system is configured to provide a virtual disk drive interface.
number: 10
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying data items from more than one data repository in a same virtual folder when the data items have centralized content management metadata matching metadata-based criteria of said virtual folder.
number: 11
text: The method according to claim 1, further comprising creating a data object from a value of at least one property of the centralized content management metadata.
number: 12
text: A method, comprising
number: 13
text: The method according to claim 12, further comprising storing said centralized content management metadata as a metadata object in the centralized content management system.
number: 14
text: The method according to claim 12, further comprising storing said centralized content management metadata as a metadata object in a location other than the data repository in which said new data item is stored.
number: 15
text: The method according to claim 12, further comprising automatically determining the data repository into which the new data item is to be stored from a set of more than one data repository connected to the centralized content management system by using one of the following: centralized content management metadata, a metadata-based rule, a preconfigured rule.
number: 16
text: An apparatus comprising at least one processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform a method according to any of the claims 1 to 11.
number: 17
text: An apparatus comprising at least one processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform a method according to any of the claims 12 to 15.
number: 18
text: A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising computer program code configured to, when executed on at least one processor, cause an apparatus or a system to implement a method according to any of the claims 1 to 11.
number: 19
text: A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising computer program code configured to, when executed on at least one processor, cause an apparatus or a system to implement a method according to any of the claims 12 to 15.
Office action: search_report, dated 2017-08-02
Rejection reasons: novelty_epc_54
Prior art cited: ref_id: US2007078897A1
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severity: background
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severity: novelty_destroying
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severity: novelty_destroying
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severity: background
Final disposition: pending (2017-08-02)