Amazon patents content system that reuses data templates for easier publishing
Amazon has been granted a patent for a content management system that organizes data into reusable building blocks called entities. This architecture allows the system to automatically handle tasks like translation and publishing by linking these reusable templates to specific content, ensuring that data rules stay consistent across different projects.
In the filing’s own words
A content management system is provided. The content management system (CMS) uses a unique content modeling architecture using nested, reusable data entities, as well as a method for constructing a system around those entities to enable features and automation within the CMS. The solution's novelty lies in (1) a mechanism for efficiently and robustly governing, triggering, and enabling complex processes (e.g., translation workflows, publication workflows) for content within a CMS by dynamically associating system models with the content, and (2) enabling schema consistency and the creation of flexibly typed content via “model set” entities that aggregate one or more reusable content schemas.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A content management system comprising: memory that stores computer-executable instructions; and one or more processors configured to access the memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to: generate, by the content management system and based on a first input to a user interface of the content management system, a first field entity including at least one of: an identifier, a data type, or a validation; store the first field entity in the content management system; generate, by the content management system and based on a second input to a user interface of the content management system, a first model entity and a second model entity that reference the first field entity, wherein the first model entity and the second model entity include at least one of: a system model, a metadata model, and a content model, wherein the system model includes fields associated with automated workflows performed by the content management system, wherein the metadata model includes fields defining properties and attributes associated with content, and the content model includes fields that are readable within first content; store the first model entity and the second model entity in the content management system, wherein the first model entity and the second model entity are stored as reusable entities that are referenceable across different model sets; generate, by the content management system and based on a third input to a user interface of the content management system, a first model set referencing the first model entity and the second model entity; receive, by the content management system and via the user interface, a first request to publish first content, the first request indicating that the first model set is to be used with the first content; receive, by the content management system and via the user interface, a second request to publish second content, the second request including a selection of at least one of: the first model set, the first model entity, or the first field entity via the user interface; publish the first content via the content management system, wherein the first content is presented via the user interface of the content management system; and publish the second content via the content management system leveraging the at least one of the: first model set, the first model entity, or the first field entity stored in the content management system by reference rather than re-generating the at least one of the: first model set, the first model entity, or the first field entity for the second content, wherein the second content is presented via the user interface of the content management system.
Facts
- Company
- Amazon (Amazon Technologies, Inc.)
- Official title
- Content management system
- Patent number
- US12730783B1
- Application number
- 18918972
- Filed
- Oct 17, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
G06F 16/212 Physics & computingG06F 16/288 Physics & computingMore from Amazon in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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