Interwoven has been issued a U.S. Patent for its "System and Method for Website Development," the core technology within its content management product, Interwoven TeamSite software.
"When we built our flagship product TeamSite, it was in anticipation that the Internet would underpin any number of initiatives and involving thousands of employees," said Jack Jia, senior vice president and CTO for Interwoven. "The granting of this patent validates our technology leadership, reflects our history of innovation and protects our intellectual property. Our 1100 world-class customers' reliance on this technology is further proof that this is what it takes to make Internet-based applications successful."
Content management for the enterprise requires a system and method that reflects the way organizations work - people working in parallel on multiple teams on multiple projects. Internet initiatives such as enterprise portals, eCommerce, self-service applications, and CRM all drive the need for this patented technology. The successful deployment of an enterprise portal, for example, requires the empowerment of thousands of content contributors, either working individually or as teams, to independently create, preview, and publish timely, relevant, and accurate content. Interwoven's patented technology delivers the necessary content collaboration and management framework for enterprise portals as well as all other Internet-based applications.
Interwoven's U.S. patent (#6505212) describes Interwoven's unique method of using branches, workareas, staging areas, and editions to develop and manage content and all revisions. This patent includes 13 claims covering among other things:
- A system for asset management comprised of multiple workareas, each configured to maintain a virtual copy of content as it would appear when published;
- A staging area to which content is submitted from multiple work areas and where any conflicts between content can be resolved;
- Branches and sub-branches (for different projects or initiatives) that contain individual workareas, staging areas, and editions which allows for massively parallel development on a single platform;
- The use of a hierarchical file system and an object repository for representing and hosting content and its structure;
- Virtualization of all content regardless of location as well as Web and application servers - this allows contributors to make changes "in context" of the entire site;
- The combined concepts of file history, versioning, comparison, and merging as it relates to content, provide an archive of all individual changes as well as collections of changes so they can be versioned and audited.
The award-winning Interwoven 5 platform is comprised of Interwoven TeamSite content management software, Interwoven MetaTagger content intelligence software, and Interwoven OpenDeploy content distribution software.