System and method for navigating and indexing content
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsManish Upendran, Laurence Mann, Ryan King
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a content data store maintains the one or more content items in accordance with a programmable indexing schemes, with each container in the comprising storage for one or more references to one or more content items. Systems and methods are provided that re-index the references to content items that the content data store is indexing in accordance with one or more container creation schemes for ease of management and navigation.
Claims10
A computerized method for re-indexing content items made available by one or more Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) servers or services, the method comprising:
- creating, using a processor, a root container for storage of one or more references to one or more content items;
- creating, using the processor, a new container within the root container in accordance with one or more container creation schemes wherein at least one of the one or more container creation schemes is determined by a content provider utilizing properties received from the content provider to determine a container hierarchy for a Content Management System (CMS);
- copying one or more links to the one or more references to the new container from the one or more UPnP servers or services;
- determining, using the processor, a need for another new container when an indexing exceeds a numeric threshold;
- where there is a need for the another new container, creating the another new container within the root container in accordance with a given content creation scheme;
- copying the one or more links to the one or more references to the another new container;
- re-indexing at least one of the one or more container creation schemes to reorder the one or more references to the one or more content items into a plurality of containers within the root container.
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