Still more CMS-related patents filed several years ago are getting approved. The U.S. PTO has recently granted Vignette two patents: "The Method and System for Optimizing Resources for Cache Management" and "The Method and System for Managing Message Pacing." Both patents are products of their era: Vignette's CMS package was once employed heavily as a portal and caching engine, and the company focused for a time on e-commerce and campaign management. To the extent Vignette has evolved in other directions -- and considering the large body of pre-existing work in both the caching and customer-contact domains -- these patents may not become terribly significant. They do, however, make the company look nominally stronger to Wall Street -- and prospective acquirors...
Message Pacing Patent   Caching Patent