Method, system and program product for controlling web content usage

• US 20040216034A1
• Filed: 04/28/2003
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hulu LLC (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Masselle, Eric L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,386,783 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/500.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment

Abstract

Under the present invention, control tags are attached to web content at a content source. The control tags are used to control use of the web content on a portal page. Specifically, a first type of control tag that can be attached to be content under the present invention is an exclusionary tag. Once attached, the exclusionary tag prevents the web content from being used on the portal page. A second type of control tag that can be attached to web content under the present invention is a set of grouping tags. The set of grouping tags can be used to require certain sections of the web content to be used/grouped together on the web page.

Claims

1. A method for controlling web content usage, comprising:

providing web content at a content source; and

attaching a control tag to the web content at the content source to control use of the web content on a portal page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the attaching step comprises attaching an exclusionary tag to the web content, and wherein the exclusionary tag prevents the web content from being used on the portal page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content comprises a plurality of sections of web content.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the attaching step comprises attaching a set of grouping tags to the plurality of sections of web content.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises a set of parent grouping tags that causes at least two of the plurality of sections of web content to be used together on the portal page.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein set of grouping tags further comprises a set of nested grouping tags that allows one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used apart from the at least two of the plurality of sections on the portal page.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises:

a set of attributes for individually identifying each of the plurality of sections of web content; and

a set of combination tags for causing at least one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used on the portal page based on the set of attributes.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content is clipped from the content source in accordance with the control tag

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the web content and the assigned control tag from the content source; and

enforcing the control tag.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising reviewing the control tag for errors.

11. A system for controlling web content usage comprising a tagging system for attaching a control tag to web content at a content source, wherein use of the web content on a portal page is controlled based on the control tag.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the tagging system comprises an exclusion system for attaching an exclusionary tag to the web content, wherein the exclusionary tag prevents the web content form being used on the portal page.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the web content comprises a plurality of sections of web content.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the tagging system comprises a grouping system for attaching a set of grouping tags to the plurality of sections of web content.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises a set of parent grouping tags that causes at least two of the plurality of sections of web content to be used together on the portal page.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein set of grouping tags further comprises a set of nested grouping tags that allows one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used apart from the at least two of the plurality of sections on the portal page.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the set of grouping tags comprise:

a set of attributes for individually identifying each of the plurality of sections of web content; and

a set of combination tags for causing at least one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used on the portal page based on the set of attributes.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the web content is clipped from the content source in accordance with the control tag.

19. The system of claim 11, further comprising an enforcement system for enforcing the control tag as received with the web content from the content source.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising a review system for reviewing the control tag for errors.

21. A program product stored on a recordable medium for controlling web content usage, which when executed, comprises program code for attaching a control tag to web content at a content source, wherein use of the web content on a portal page is controlled based on the control tag.

22. The program product claim 21, wherein the program code for attaching comprises program code for attaching an exclusionary tag to the web content, wherein the exclusionary tag prevents the web content form being used on the portal page.

23. The program product claim 21, wherein the web content comprises a plurality of sections of web content.

24. The program product claim 23, wherein the program code for attaching comprises program code for attaching a set of grouping tags to the plurality of sections of web content.

25. The program product of claim 24, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises a set of parent grouping tags that causes at least two of the plurality of sections of web content to be used together on the portal page.

26. The program product of claim 25, wherein set of grouping tags further comprises a set of nested grouping tags that allows one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used apart from the at least two of the plurality of sections on the portal page.

27. The program product of claim 24, wherein the set of grouping tags comprise:

a set of attributes for individually identifying each of the plurality of sections of web content; and

a set of combination tags for causing at least one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used on the portal page based on the set of attributes.

28. The program product of claim 21, wherein the web content is clipped from the content source in accordance with the control tag.

29. The program product of claim 21, further comprising program code for enforcing the control tag as received with the web content from the content source.

30. The program product of claim 29, further comprising program code for reviewing the control tag for errors.