PROVIDING VIRTUAL REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION (RSS) FEEDS

• US 20080172370A1
• Filed: 01/12/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: FAROUKI, KARIM T.
• Granted Patent: US 7,930,290 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A system, method, and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing virtual RSS feeds to requesting users. In one aspect, an embodiment of the method may include receiving a search query for one or more virtual Really Simple Syndication Feeds. The method further includes comparing a keyword to a database of keywords associated with the virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds. Additionally, the method includes determining which of the associated keywords match with the keywords. Moreover, the method includes providing the associated virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds that correspond to the matched keywords.

Claims

1. A method for providing virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds, comprising:

determining a presence of a new content within at least one XML file published by a content provider on the Internet, wherein the new content includes information that was not present in the at least one XML file in a previous examination of the at least one XML file;

identifying at least one subset of information within the at least one XML file;

determining one or more keywords for the at least one subset of information based on one or more keyword computation techniques;

associating the one or more keywords with the at least one subset of information;

ranking the at least one subset of information based on one or more ranking factors; and

providing the at least one ranked subset of information.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising comparing at least one keyword within a search query to the one or more keywords in order to identify corresponding subsets of information to respond to the search query.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more keyword computation techniques include at least one of a content provider keyword submission, an algorithmic keyword extraction, and a user keyword submission.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more ranking factors include at least one of an explicit rating submission, an implicit rating submission, and a page-rank.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising providing one or more advertisements with the at least one ranked subset of information.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising examining a header of the at least one XML file to determine a method of payment to the content provider.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the payment is based on a number of times users access the one or more advertisements.

8. A method for providing virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds, comprising:

receiving a request to monitor at least one specified topic of interest for one or more XML files relating to content published by one or more content providers;

determining a change in content within the one or more XML files;

determining one or more keywords from at least one subset of information associated with each of the one or more XML files;

determining at least one matched subset of information that is related to the topic of interest; and

providing the at least one matched subset of information.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein at least one XML file is a Really Simple Syndication feed.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising ranking the at least one matched subset of information based on at least one of an explicit rating submission, an implicit rating submission, and a page-rank.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the one or more keywords are determined by at least one of a content provider keyword submission, an algorithmic keyword extraction, and a user keyword submission.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the at least one subset of information is subset of at least one of an article and a blog post.

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising providing advertisements with the at least one matched subset of information based on a one or more keywords of the matched subset of information.

14. One or more computer-readable media having computer-usable instructions stored thereon for performing a method for providing virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds, the method comprising:

receiving a search query for one or more virtual Really Simple Syndication Feeds, the search query including at least one keyword;

comparing the at least one keyword to a database of keywords associated with the one or more virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds;

determining which of the associated keywords match with the at least one keyword; and

providing the associated virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds that correspond to the matched keywords.

15. The media according to claim 14, further comprising providing the virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds corresponding to the matched keywords in a ranked order.

16. The media according to claim 15, wherein the ranked order is based on an explicit rating submission.

17. The media according to claim 15, wherein the ranked order is based on an implicit rating submission.

18. The media according to claim 15, wherein the ranked order is based on a page-rank.

19. The media according to claim 14, wherein the provided virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds include information from at least one of an article and a blog post.

20. The computer-readable media according to claim 14, further comprising providing advertisements with the associated virtual Really Simple Syndication feeds based the matched keywords.