Updating of an electronic periodical

• US 20090070125A1
• Filed: 09/06/2007
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Doron Geva
• Original Assignee: Doron Geva
• Inventors: Geva, Doron
• Application Number:
  US11/896,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070125A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/342
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0204 Market segmentation

Abstract

An electronic periodical includes at least one object its content has at least one updatable segment. Updating is accomplished by substituting a content of a segment of an object stored in a database of objects associated with the currently publicized edition being ready for publishing. Updating rate is higher than the rate in which two successive editions of the periodical are publicized. A subscribing service in which: a. subscribers are eligible to update a selected content of a specified object of a currently publicized edition of the electronic periodical; b. subscribers are notified regarding such intermediate updates, is provided.

Claims

1. A method for updating an object of an electronic periodical having editions publicized at a periodical publicizing rate, wherein said object is published by being accessed by means of communications network, said method comprising substituting at least a segment of the content of said object, which is the first segment, with a second segment including an updated content, wherein said first segment is stored in a database in which objects to be published are stored, and wherein said stored objects are associated with the currently publicized edition, and wherein said substituting accomplished at an intermediate point in time following the time in which said currently publicized edition is publicized.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said intermediate point in time is any point in time prior to the publicizing time of the edition successively following said currently publicized edition.

3. A method as in claim 1, wherein said intermediate point in time is predefined.

4. A method as in claim 1, wherein said substituting accomplished at least once prior to the time of publicizing the edition successively following said currently publicized edition.

5. A method as in claim 1, further comprising messaging a subscriber following ay least one of said substituting, wherein said messaging is accomplished by any means selected from a group of messages consisting of phone call, email, fax, short messaging service (SMS), voicemail and any combination thereof.

7. An electronic periodical as in claim 5, wherein said publicizing is routinely accomplished at a fixed rate.

8. An electronic periodical as in claim 5, wherein said updatable object is updated at least once prior to the publicizing time of the edition successively following the currently publicized edition.

6. An electronic periodical the objects of are published by being accessed by means of a communications network, having editions publicized at a periodical publicizing rate, said electronic periodical comprising at least one object a segment of its content updatable at a rate higher than said periodical publicizing rate.