System and method for managing distribution of multi-formatted content

• US 20080147674A1
• Filed: 02/26/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Syniverse ICX LLC
• Original Assignee: Syniverse ICX Corp. (Syniverse Corp.)
• Inventors: Priyadarshan, Eswar, Lo, Kenneth, Bukow, George, Nandiwada, Srinivasarao, Dhandapani, Krishnamoorthy
• Granted Patent: US 7,610,551 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A system and method for managing distribution of multi-formatted content. According to an embodiment, a content aggregation platform provides a user interface to receive a location of content to be provided to the content aggregation platform by a content provider in a source format native to the content provider, and transformation instructions describing how to transform the source format of the content into a platform format native to the content aggregation platform, receives the content location and the transformation instructions via the user interface, and stores the content location and the transformation instructions in a database to support subsequent delivery of the content to one or more users for display.

Claims

1. A method for managing distribution of multi-formatted content, comprising:

providing, by a content aggregation platform, a user interface to receive a location of content to be provided to the content aggregation platform by a

content provider in a source format native to the content provider, and transformation instructions describing how to transform the source format of the

content into a platform format native to the content aggregation platform;

receiving the content location and the transformation instructions via the user interface; and

storing the content location and the transformation instructions in a database to support subsequent delivery of the content to one or more users for display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the content is a URL.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transformation instructions describe an XML transformation.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the XML transformation is an extensible stylesheet language transformation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the source format native to the content provider is a podcast format.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the source format native to the content provider is a RSS format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the source format native to the content provider is a NewsML format.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the source format native to the content provider is a sportsML format.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the source format native to the content provider is an XML format customized by the content provider.

10. A method for managing distribution of multi-formatted content, comprising:

receiving, by a content aggregation platform, content from a content provider in a source format native to the content provider;

retrieving transformation instructions describing how to transform the source format of the content into a platform format native to the content aggregation platform;

transforming the source format of the content into the platform format in accordance with the retrieved instructions; and

storing the platform-formatted content to support subsequent delivery of the content to one or more users for display.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the transformation instructions are retrieved from a database.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the transformed content is stored in a database.

13. The method of claim 12, further including

retrieving the platform-formatted content from the database;

transforming the platform format of the platform-formatted content into a delivery format recognizable by display software associated with the one or more users; and

delivering the delivery-formatted content to the one or more users.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the delivery-formatted content is delivered to mobile devices associated with the one or more users.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the retrieved transformation instructions describe an XML transformation.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the XML transformation is an extensible stylesheet language transformation.