Oracle patents content management systems

Oracle patents content management systems

Posted Aug 2, 2004 18:32 UTC (Mon) by brianh59 (guest, #23685)
Parent article: Oracle patents content management systems

There is a lot of misdirected antagonism here. All prior comments seem to based on the misconception that the Abstract, quoted above, has anything to do with what is actually covered by the patent. It does not.

The claims of a patent dictate what is covered by a patent, and they are usually much, much narrower and more focussed than the abstract. For example, this patent's broadest claim is recited below. It is limited to support for "perspectives", which are cross category groupings of content items.

In the future, I recommend studying the claims of a patent before wasting effort on vented ire.

1. A method for displaying content, comprising:

receiving input that defines a set of perspectives, wherein each perspective in the set of perspectives is a cross category grouping of one or more content items, and wherein said one or more content items is in a plurality of content items;

storing, in a database, the plurality of content items, wherein each of the plurality of content items belongs to one or more categories;

receiving user input that associates subsets of said set of perspectives with each of said plurality of content items; and

in response to a request to display a web page that contains one of said plurality of content items, displaying on said web page a selectable control for each perspective in the subset of said set of perspectives that is associated with said one of said plurality of content items.

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