System and Method for Grouping a Collection of Documents Using Document Series

Abstract

A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document series. Document series information is stored in an asset database.

1 . A computer system for managing a document series via a user interface, the document series having at least one document associated with the document series, the computer system comprising:
 a computer-readable medium storing first software, wherein said first software when executed by a processor causes said computer system to prompt a user to manually enter a notification message to be associated with said document series;   a first database storing metadata characterizing the document series, where said metadata includes said notification message manually entered by said user;   a second database storing a key for accessing the metadata; and   a computer-readable medium storing second software, wherein said second software when executed by a processor causes said computer system to retrieve the document series metadata from the first database through the key stored on the second database and communicate said notification message to members of a notification group when a document of said document series is modified or uploaded.   
   
   
       2 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the user interface is a document series edit screen. 
   
   
       3 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising a third database storing one or more users having permission to view the document, wherein said one or more users are members of said notification group. 
   
   
       4 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising a third database storing one or more users having permission to upload the document to the document series, wherein said one or more users are members of said notification group, 
   
   
       5 . A computer system for managing a document series via a user interface, the document series having at least one document associated with the document series, the computer system comprising:
 a computer-readable medium storing first software, wherein said first software when executed by a processor causes said computer system to prompt a user to manually enter a document series title and one or more search terms to he associated with said document series;   a first database storing metadata characterizing the document series, where said metadata includes said document series title and said one or more search terms manually entered by said user;   a second database storing a key for accessing the metadata;   a computer-readable medium storing second software, wherein said second software when executed by a processor causes said computer system to retrieve the document series metadata from the first database through the key stored on the second database and present the retrieved metadata to the user interface in response to the user entering one or more of said one or more search terms into a search engine.