Method and apparatus of dynamic updating web portals
The web portal's contents management becomes complex and sometime tedious job. There are needs for an efficient and cost effective way to manage large volumes of the web contents for web portals. The posting and withdrawing operation of the present invention has provided a means for making the tasks of updating and managing web portal's contents become much easy and efficient due to the principle of the parallelism can be deployed.
1. A computing device comprising a processor, memory and program code which, when executed by the processor, configures the device to:
(i) display a user interface to each of a first user and a second user to share information, wherein each of the user interfaces comprises, for each of the first and second users, (a) a private section configured to display information about files or folders available for the user to share and (b) a common section configured to display information about files or folders shared with the user;
(ii) share a file or folder selected, from the available files or folders, by the first user with the second user by (a) allowing the first user to identify the file or folder in the private section on the first user's interface, which is not viewable by the second user, (b) unlocking a protection mechanism of the file or folder to allow access to the second user, (c) storing information about the file or folder, without the content of the file or folder, in a common work place accessible to both the first user and the second user, and (d) displaying information about the file or folder in the common section on the second user's interface, wherein the second user can access the file or folder through the displayed information; and
(iii) stop sharing of a file or folder to the second user that the first user has previously shared with the second user by (a) deleting information about the file or folder displayed in the common section on the second user's interface, (b) deleting information about the file or folder that has been stored in the common work place, and (c) locking the protection mechanism to rescind access to the second user.
2. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein each of the user interfaces further comprises, for each of the first and second users, (c) a private message section configured to allow the user to input a message and (d) a common message section configured to display messages shared with the user.
3. The computing device of claim 2 , wherein the program code further configures the device to
(iv) share a message by the first user with the second user by (a) receiving a message from the first user, via the private message section on the first user's interface, which is not viewable by the second user, (b) storing the message in the common work place accessible to both the first user and the second user, and (c) displaying the message in the common message section on the second user's interface; and
(v) delete a message that the first user has previously shared with the second user by (a) identifying the message in the common work place and in the common message section on the second user's interface and (b) deleting the message from the common work place and the common message section.
4. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is presented on a web browser.
5. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the first user and the second user are members of a user group, and the file or folder shared with the second user is also displayed in the common section of the user interfaces of all users in the user group, and is accessible to all users of the user group.