Method and system for creating and distributing and audio newspaper
First Claim
1. A method of creating and delivering a news publication to a user in an audio format wherein the news publication has a plurality of content items in text format created by a publisher;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) defining a plurality of content categories for a selected publication;
(b) selecting content items to be available in the plurality of content categories;
(c) converting the selected content items to audio format content items; and
(d) providing user access to the audio format content items so that the user may play the audio format content items on a media player.
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Abstract
An audio newspaper system obtains or receives non-audio content items from a publisher and converts them into audio format content items. As part of the conversion, the software may be configured to create summaries from the content items. The summaries may include an overall news summary or headline summaries for different content categories. Advertisements may be associated with the audio format content items. Images may be associated with the audio format content items. The management software than provides access to the users who play selected audio format content items. The system may track and report user data back to the publisher or advertiser.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of creating and delivering a news publication to a user in an audio format wherein the news publication has a plurality of content items in text format created by a publisher;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) defining a plurality of content categories for a selected publication; (b) selecting content items to be available in the plurality of content categories; (c) converting the selected content items to audio format content items; and (d) providing user access to the audio format content items so that the user may play the audio format content items on a media player. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
- the method comprising the steps of;
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16. A method of creating and delivering a news publication to a user in an audio format wherein the news publication has a plurality of content items in text format created by a publisher;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) defining a plurality of content categories; (b) allowing the publisher to select content items to be available in the plurality of content categories wherein each content item includes a headline and a story body; (c) converting the content items selected in step (b) to audio format content items; (d) defining a subset of the selected content items and converting only a portion of each selected content item of the defined subset to generate an audio format summary of each selected content item in the defined subset; and (e) providing access to a user to each audio format content item and each audio format summary. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
- the method comprising the steps of;
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20. A method of delivering a news publication to a user in an audio format wherein the news publication has a plurality of content items in text format;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) obtaining a plurality of text format content items from the publisher of the news publication and converting them to audio format content items; (b) obtaining an advertisement to be associated with at least one selected content item; (c) associating the advertisement with the selected content item; and (d) delivering the audio format content items and advertisements to the user in a manner that exposes the user to the advertisement associated with the audio format content item when the audio format content item is played.
- the method comprising the steps of;
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21. The method of claim 21, wherein step (b) includes the step of obtaining a text format advertisement and converting the text format advertisement to an audio format advertisement.
- 22. The method of claim 22, wherein step (c) is performed after the text format advertisement is converted to an audio format advertisement and the audio format advertisement is associated with an audio format content item.
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