US Patent:
20090234850, Sep 17, 2009
Inventors:
Charles F. Kocsis - Colorado Springs CO, US
Pamela V. Bergstrom - Lakewood CO, US
Brian Van Pelt - Lafayette IN, US
Srinivas Turlapati - Greenwood Village CO, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
G06F 17/00
US Classification:
707 6, 707100, 707E17001, 707E17143
Abstract:
A system to synchronize metadata for a plurality of applications. The system includes content administration rules programmed to define policies for updating metadata in the master database and policies for propagating updates in the metadata to the plurality of applications. The metadata describes at least one asset represented as data residing in at least one of the plurality of applications. A rules engine is programmed to apply at least a first set of the content administration rules to a metadata record received from a first application of the plurality of applications to control updating corresponding metadata stored in a master database. Changes in the corresponding metadata made to the master database can be propagated to at least one second application of the plurality of applications according to a second set of the content administration rules predefined for each of the at least one second application.