SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING A SINGLE SOURCE RSS DOCUMENT FROM MULTIPLE CONTENT SOURCES
First Claim
1. A method of aggregating a plurality of content sources into a single master Really Simple Syndication (RSS) document, said method comprising the steps of:
- retrieving a plurality of content sources;
scanning each content source against user content configuration data to extract one or more items therefrom;
storing each item extracted in memory; and
combining said items stored in memory into a single master RSS document.
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Abstract
A novel system and method for aggregating multiple really simple syndication (RSS) documents and non-RSS document content sources into a single master RSS document. An aggregation application identifies the particular elements in each RSS document and content sources to be aggregated into the master RSS document. A user indicates the specific content sources and RSS documents to be included and any filtering criteria to be applied to the content sources and/or RSS documents. The resulting collection of items are stored and combined to generate the master RSS document. RSS documents are generated from non-RSS document content sources. The aggregation application examines the document and attempts to identify elements therein. For each element identified, the aggregation application ‘highlights’ the corresponding document code as a content element. The aggregation application renders the document through a GUI. A user customizes the content of the target RSS document by selecting items to be represented in RSS format. The selected content is aggregated together and used to generate the master RSS document.
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33 Claims
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1. A method of aggregating a plurality of content sources into a single master Really Simple Syndication (RSS) document, said method comprising the steps of:
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retrieving a plurality of content sources;
scanning each content source against user content configuration data to extract one or more items therefrom;
storing each item extracted in memory; and
combining said items stored in memory into a single master RSS document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of combining a plurality of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) documents into a single master RSS document, said method comprising the steps of:
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retrieving a plurality of RSS documents;
scanning each RSS document to extract one or more items therefrom utilizing user content configuration data to indicate the information to be extracted; and
combining said extracted items into a single master RSS document. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A computer program product, comprising:
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a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for combining a plurality of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) documents into a single master RSS document, said computer program product including;
computer usable program code for retrieving a plurality of RSS documents;
computer usable program code for scanning each RSS document to extract one or more items therefrom utilizing user content configuration data to indicate the information to be extracted; and
computer usable program code for combining all extracted items into a single master RSS document. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of combining multiple Really Simple Syndication (RSS) documents into a single master RSS document, said method comprising the steps of:
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retrieving a plurality of RSS documents;
scanning each RSS document to identify one or more individual elements therein;
displaying said identified elements for selection by a user; and
aggregating identified elements selected by said user into said single master RSS document. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31)
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32. A method of combining multiple Really Simple Syndication (RSS) documents and non-RSS content into a single master RSS document, said method comprising the steps of:
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retrieving a plurality of RSS documents and non-RSS documents;
scanning each RSS document to identify one or more RSS based individual elements therein;
scanning each non-RSS document to identify one or more non-RSS based individual elements therein;
displaying said RSS based identified elements and said non-RSS based identified elements for selection by a user;
converting non-RSS based identified elements selected by said user into RSS format;
aggregating RSS based identified elements and converted non-RSS based identified elements selected by said user to into said single master RSS document.
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33. A computer program product, comprising:
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a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for combining multiple Really Simple Syndication (RSS) documents into a single master RSS document, said computer program product including;
computer usable program code for retrieving a plurality of RSS documents;
computer usable program code for scanning each RSS document to identify one or more individual elements therein;
computer usable program code for displaying said identified elements for selection by a user; and
computer usable program code for aggregating identified elements selected by said user to generate said single master RSS document.
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