Document delivery system facilitating aggregation of periodic content

• US 20010017707A1
• Filed: 03/13/2001
• Published: 08/30/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Edward O.
• Application Number:
  US09/805,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20010017707A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1279 Controller construction, e.g. aspects of the interface hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0264 based upon schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0271 Personalized advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/543 Sensing means responsive to work indicium or irregularity

Abstract

A document server is presented comprising a user profile, established by a user requesting delivery of content from one or more content providers on a periodic basis, and an edit module. The edit module periodically receives content from solicited content providers in accordance with a content provider publication schedule, and aggregates the received content for periodic delivery to a requesting user when the content provider'"'"'s publication schedule deviates from a delivery schedule defined in the user profile.

Claims

1. A method for generating a publication, the method comprising:

soliciting content from one or more content providers in response to a user request to receive such content in accordance with a user-defined delivery schedule; and

receiving the content at a content repository in accordance with a publication schedule of the content and aggregating the content for subsequent delivery to the requesting user if the publication schedule differs from the user-defined delivery schedule.

2. A method according to

claim 1

, further comprising:

compiling the received content into a document format; and

delivering the formatted content in a user-defined form to the requesting user.

3. A method according to

claim 2

, wherein compiling the received content into a document format comprises:

formatting the received content within a publication to denote a chronological order in which the content was received.

4. A method according to

claim 2

, wherein delivering the aggregated content comprises:

sending the formatted publication, along with a print instruction, to printing device designated by the requesting user.

5. A method according to

claim 4

, wherein the print instructions designates a time for printing the publication.

6. A method according to

claim 2

, wherein delivering the aggregated content comprises:

sending the formatted publication to one or more electronic mailboxes designated by the requesting user.

7. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein soliciting content from one or more content providers comprises:

sending a subscription request to one or more content providers requesting the content in accordance with the publication schedule of the content provider.

8. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein soliciting content from one or more content providers comprises:

periodically issuing requests to the content providers for content on behalf of the requesting user.

9. A method according to

claim 8

, wherein the period is determined by the publication schedule of the content provider(s).

10. A method according to

claim 8

, wherein the requests are issued daily.

11. A storage medium comprising a plurality of executable instructions which, when executed, implement an edit module to solicit content from one or more content providers in response to a user request to receive such content in accordance with a user-defined delivery schedule, to receive the content at a content repository in accordance with a publication schedule of the content, and to aggregate the content for subsequent delivery to the requesting user if the publication schedule differs from the user-defined delivery schedule.

12. A storage medium according to

claim 11

, wherein the edit module compiles the received content into a document format, and delivers the formatted content in a user-defined form to the requesting user.

13. A storage medium according to

claim 12

, wherein the edit module compiles the received content by formatting the received content within a publication to denote a chronological order in which the content was received.

14. A storage medium according to

claim 12

, wherein the edit module delivers the aggregate content by sending the formatted publication, along with a print instruction, to printing device designated by the requesting user.

15. A storage medium according to

claim 12

, wherein the edit module delivers the aggregate content by sending the formatted publication to one or more electronic mailboxes designated by the requesting user.

16. A document delivery system comprising:

an content repository, to receive content from one or more content providers in accordance with a content provider publication schedule; and

an edit module, coupled to the content repository, to periodically collect and aggregate content received in the content repository for delivery to a requesting user in accordance with a user-defined delivery schedule.

17. A document delivery system according to

claim 16

, wherein the edit module compiles the received content into a document format, and delivers the formatted content in a user-defined form to the requesting user.

18. A document delivery system according to

claim 17

, wherein the edit module compiles the received content by formatting the received content within a publication to denote a chronological order in which the content was received.

19. A document delivery system according to

claim 17

, wherein the edit module delivers the aggregate content by sending the formatted publication, along with a print instruction, to printing device designated by the requesting user.

20. A document delivery system according to

claim 17

, wherein the edit module delivers the aggregate content by sending the formatted publication to one or more electronic mailboxes designated by the requesting user.