SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COLLECTING, CORRELATING, AND AGGREGATING STRUCTURED EDITED CONTENT AND NON-EDITED CONTENT
First Claim
1. A system for collecting, correlating and aggregating syndicated-format edited content with non-edited content, said system comprising:
- an infolet for receiving syndicated-format edited content, said syndicated-format edited content comprising standard source system attributes, an access gateway for receiving non-edited content, said non-edited content comprising non-text content;
a content processor that converts at least a portion of said non-text content into a text content, said content processor creates a set of description schema attributes, said description schema attributes being based on user-supplied input or information extracted from the non-text content;
a content database that stores said non-text content, said text content and said description schema attributes, said content database establishes non-text content pointers for the stored non-text content and text content pointers for the stored text content;
a blog infolet that provides a syndicated-style data presentation of a first user'"'"'s web blog, said syndicated-style data presentation comprises at least one of said non-text pointers and said text pointers; and
an aggregator infolet that correlates said syndicated-format edited content and said syndicated-style data using said standard source system attributes and said description schema attributes, into a correlated cluster set according to a second user'"'"'s query, said aggregator infolet produces said correlated cluster as an aggregated syndicated-style data feed.
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Abstract
A mobile multimedia content aggregation and dissemination platform is provided that aims to automate the creation, collection, correlation, aggregation, and dissemination of RSS, ATOM or other syndicated-style data formats along with non-syndicated content for blogs and for searching by interested parties. Then non-syndicated content may be substantially any type of multimedia content that has not yet been edited or that has been edited. The system and method may receive data content that originated from a syndicated information source along with other data content that originated from a non-syndicated information source. The system and method convert both types of content into, at least, blog information and blog data. The blog information comprising, information that points to a storage location of the blog data. The exemplary method further enables a user to search the blog data regardless of whether the blog data originated from a syndicated data source or non-syndicated data source.
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26 Claims
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1. A system for collecting, correlating and aggregating syndicated-format edited content with non-edited content, said system comprising:
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an infolet for receiving syndicated-format edited content, said syndicated-format edited content comprising standard source system attributes, an access gateway for receiving non-edited content, said non-edited content comprising non-text content; a content processor that converts at least a portion of said non-text content into a text content, said content processor creates a set of description schema attributes, said description schema attributes being based on user-supplied input or information extracted from the non-text content; a content database that stores said non-text content, said text content and said description schema attributes, said content database establishes non-text content pointers for the stored non-text content and text content pointers for the stored text content; a blog infolet that provides a syndicated-style data presentation of a first user'"'"'s web blog, said syndicated-style data presentation comprises at least one of said non-text pointers and said text pointers; and an aggregator infolet that correlates said syndicated-format edited content and said syndicated-style data using said standard source system attributes and said description schema attributes, into a correlated cluster set according to a second user'"'"'s query, said aggregator infolet produces said correlated cluster as an aggregated syndicated-style data feed.
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2. The system of claim 1, wherein said non-edited content is at least one of video content, audio content, graphic content, and facsimile machine generated content.
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3. The system of claim 1, wherein said syndicated-format edited content is at least one of RSS content provided by a syndicated content source and Atom content provided by a syndicated content source.
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4. The system of claim 1, wherein said access gateway is further for receiving user selected description information associated with said non-edited content, and wherein said description schema attributes for said non-text content comprise at least a portion of said user selected description information.
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5. The system of claim 1, wherein said content processor extracts an attribute from said non-text content based on the contents of said text content, and wherein said description schema attributes has a descriptor filled by said attribute for said non-text content.
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6. The system of claim 1, wherein said non-edited content comprises at least one of video content and graphic content, and wherein said content processor extracts at least one attribute from said non-text content based on an identification of an item identified in said non-text content.
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7. The system of claim 6, wherein said description schema attributes for said non-text content comprises said item.
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8. The system of claim 1, wherein said non-edited content comprises at least one of facsimile machine generated content and scanned text content;
- said system further comprises a character recognition module that receives said non-edited content and provides said text-content to said content processor.
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9. The system of claim 8, wherein said character recognition module is part of said content processor.
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10. The system of claim 1, wherein said non-edited content comprises audio information;
- said system further comprising a speech recognition module for converting at least a portion of said non-edited content received by said access gateway into said text content.
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11. The system of said claim 1, wherein said first user'"'"'s web blog is stored in a blog database.
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12. The system of claim 11, wherein said blog database is part of said system.
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13. The system of claim 1, wherein said syndicated-style data feed further comprises said description schema attributes.
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14. The system of claim 1, wherein said aggregator infolet receives said second user'"'"'s query and performs a search and correlation of said first user'"'"'s web blog and said syndicated-format edited content based on a multidimensional correlation criteria, said multidimensional correlation criteria comprising said second user'"'"'s query.
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15. The system of claim 1, wherein said non-edited content originates from a consumer electronic device.
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16. The system of claim 1, wherein said system receives said non-edited content from a non-syndicated data content source.
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17. In a service platform system, a method of collecting, correlating and aggregating syndicated content and non-edited content, said method comprising:
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receiving syndicated content, said syndicated content comprising source system attributes; receiving non-edited content via an access gateway, said non-edited content comprising non-text content; converting at least a portion of said non-text content into a text content; providing said non-text content description schema attributes; storing said non-text content in a content database with said description schema attribute, said stored non-text content having a first pointer; providing a syndicated-style data feed to a first user'"'"'s web blog, said syndicated-style data feed comprising said first pointer of said non-text content, said first user'"'"'s web blog being stored in a blog database; receiving a query from a second user; correlating said standardized syndicated content, using said source system attributes, with said syndicated-style data feed, using said description schema attributes, into a cluster set using correlation criteria from said query; presenting said cluster set as an aggregated syndicated-style data feed; and providing said aggregated syndicated-style data feed to said second user.
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18. The method of claim 17, further comprising searching, after receiving said query, said blog database and said syndicated content using search attributes from said query.
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19. The method of claim 17, wherein said syndicated content is in RSS.
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20. The method of claim 17, wherein said aggregated syndicated-style data feed is in RSS.
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21. The method of claim 17, wherein said non-text content comprises audio data and wherein converting is performed by an automatic speech recognition module.
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22. The method of claim 17, wherein said non-text content is at least one of video data and graphic data, and wherein converting is performed by an image recognition module.
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23. The method of claim 17, wherein the step of providing said non-text content a description schema attribute further comprises reviewing said text content for descriptor attributes for said description schema.
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24. The method of claim 17, wherein said non-edited content is received by said service platform originating from a consumer electronic device.
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25. The method of claim 17, wherein said non-edited content is received by said service platform and originated from a non-RSS data source.
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26. The method of claim 17, wherein said first user provides said non-edited content along with additional classification information for said description schema attribute.
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