NEWS ARCHITECTURE FOR iTV

• US 20100161826A1
• Filed: 01/08/2010
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TiVo Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TVWorks LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Knowles, Mark O., Crakes-Franzen, Alison N., Miner, Edward A., Nguyen, Maikhanh T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,032,651 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

A system and method for acquiring media content is disclosed. A capture platform may allow users to create customized templates for the automatic capture of web-based media, such as news. Captured content may be normalized for optimized access by a plurality of different device platforms, and may also be customized for individual users. One or more chained transformer plug-ins may be used to provide the customization.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

storing, by a computer, a target platform specific web content harvest capture template comprising one or more markup language files defining rules, logic and content extraction parameters for media content, and identifying content display layouts or mappings for the target platform;

using the capture template to extract media content from one or more web-based sources; and

providing the media content to a targeted platform device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the capture template is author-defined.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a normalized data stream optimized for display on the targeted platform based on the capture template.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein using the capture template to extract media content further comprises extracting media content from a plurality of disparate, web-based content sources.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a plurality of chained transformations on the extracted media content.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising specifying one or more chained transformer plug-ins to customize a content feed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more markup language files are extensible markup language files.

8. A computer-readable medium, storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the following to occur:

storing, by a computer, a target platform specific web content harvest capture template comprising one or more markup language files defining rules, logic and content extraction parameters for media content, and identifying content display layouts or mappings for the target platform;

using the capture template to extract media content from one or more web-based sources; and

providing the media content to a targeted platform device.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the capture template is author-defined.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, the instructions further causing the following to occur when executed:

generating a normalized data stream optimized for display on the targeted platform based on the capture template.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein using the capture template to extract media content further comprises extracting media content from a plurality of disparate, web-based content sources.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, the instructions further causing the following to occur when executed:

performing a plurality of chained transformations on the extracted media content.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, the instructions further causing the following to occur when executed:

specifying one or more chained transformer plug-ins to customize a content feed.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the one or more markup language files are extensible markup language files.

15. A system, comprising:

a content harvest and conversion platform, configured to allow authors to create capture templates including one or more markup language files defining rules, logic and content extraction parameters for harvesting media content from disparate, web-based sources, the harvest and conversion platform being further configured to use the capture templates to extract media content from the web-based sources; and

a syndication server configured to generate a normalized data stream from the extracted media content, and to provide the normalized stream for display on one or more different platforms.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the content harvest and conversion platform is configured to perform a plurality of chained transformations on the extracted media content.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the content harvest and conversion platform is configured to specify one or more chained transformer plug-ins to customize a content feed.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the content harvest and conversion platform is configured to perform the plurality of chained transformations on the extracted media content to customize a news feed for a user.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the customizing of the news feed for the user includes removal of duplicate news headlines.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the markup language files include one or more extensible markup language files.