Method and system for user receipt of digital content

• US 20090049373A1
• Filed: 08/14/2007
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NBC Universal Media LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NBC Universal Incorporated (GE Aerospace)
• Inventors: Sharma, Kshitij, Kamkhalia, Pranav
• Application Number:
  US11/893,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20090049373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method for disseminating digital, including executing code referenced in a markup language page to request a browser displayable interface configuration from a server, receiving from the server a definition of the interface including resource tags, and interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content. A markup language page for disseminating digital content, the page having division tags defining a plurality of containers for the digital content and locations in the page for playing the content, and having an a script tag referencing a web address from which a player definition can be retrieved.

Claims

1. A method for disseminating digital content, comprising:

executing code referenced in a markup language page to request a browser displayable interface configuration from a server;

receiving from the server a definition of the interface including resource tags; and

interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface is a player displayed in the browser for playing the digital content.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising providing the digital content in a plurality of containers defined by code in the markup language page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the code referenced in the markup language page includes a plurality of division or section elements defining containers and locations for the containers in the markup language page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the code referenced in the markup language page includes script referencing a web address from which the interface definition can be retrieved.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the code referenced in the markup language page uniquely defines an interface for one of a plurality of content distributors.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving from the server parsing logic code for parsing the digital content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content includes any object that a mark-up language supports.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the mark-up language comprises hypertext markup language.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content includes audio, video, or audio-visual content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content comprises streaming content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content comprises progressive-download content.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is one of a plurality of geographically dispersed servers capable of providing the server definition and the content.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the server is the server most geographically local to a user computer on which the code is executed from among the plurality of geographically dispersed servers.

15. A method for disseminating digital content, comprising:

on a computer on which content is to be played, executing script code in a markup language page referencing a web address from which the player definition can be retrieved;

receiving from a server at the web address, a definition of the player including resource tags for the digital content;

interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content; and

providing the digital content in containers defined by division tags in the markup language page.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the script code uniquely defines a player for one of a plurality of content distributors.

17. A method for disseminating digital content, comprising:

on a computer on which content is to be played, executing script code in a markup language page referencing a web address from which the player definition can be retrieved;

requesting a definition of the player at the web address from an edge server most geographically local to the computer on which the code is executed from among a plurality of geographically dispersed servers;

receiving the definition of the player including resource tags for the digital content;

interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content from the server; and

providing the digital content in containers defined by division tags in the markup language page.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the script code uniquely defines a player for one of a plurality of content distributors.

19. The method of claim 17, comprising receiving from the server parsing logic code for parsing the digital content.

20. A markup language page for disseminating digital content, comprising:

division tags defining a plurality of containers for the digital content and locations in the page for playing the content; and

a script tag referencing a web address from which a player definition can be retrieved.