SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PUBLICATION CONTENT TO READER DEVICES USING MIXED MODE TRANSMISSION

• US 20100312780A1
• Filed: 06/09/2009
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: CONBOY, Garth, LE CHEVALIER, Vincent, RICHARDS, Ruze, DUGA, Brady, LESHNER, William, RIVLIN, John
• Application Number:
  US12/481,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20100312780A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/759
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels

Abstract

A system for and method of delivering publication content to one or more reader devices using mixed mode transmission is presented. The system and method may include segmenting, using a computing apparatus, the publication content into a plurality of publication content components. The system and method may also include generating, using a computing apparatus, master publication content that comprises a reference to each publication content component and indicates a structure of the publication content. The system and method may further include multi-casting, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content and the plurality of publication content components via a network.

Claims

1. A system for delivering publication content to one or more reader devices using mixed mode transmission, the system comprising:

a pre-transmission computing apparatus configured to segment the publication content into a plurality of publication content components;

the pre-transmission computing apparatus configured to generate master publication content that comprises at least one reference to each publication content component and indicates a structure of the publication content; and

a transmission computing apparatus configured to multi-cast, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content and the plurality of publication content components via a network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the pre-transmission computing apparatus is further configured to segment by segmenting the publication content based on user input data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the user input data indicates a user'"'"'s interest in one or more categories of publication content.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more categories of publication content comprise at least one of:

a Front category, a Metropolitan category, a Traffic category, a Nation category, a Politics category, a World category, a Business category, an Editorial category, an Outlook category, an Entertainment category, a Life category, a Lottery category, a Horoscope category, a Sports category, a Tech News category, and a Celebrities category.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the pre-transmission computing apparatus is further configured to segment by segmenting the publication content based on one or more page boundaries of the publication content.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the structure of the publication content indicates a display position of each publication content component.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmission module is further configured to multi-cast by multi-casting, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content and the plurality of publication content components in accordance with a multi-cast transmission schedule.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmission computing apparatus is further configured to uni-cast, to the one or more reader devices, at least one publication content component via the network in response to a uni-cast request from the one or more reader devices.

10. The system of claim I, wherein the transmission computing apparatus is further configured to uni-cast, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content via the network in response to a uni-cast request from the one or more reader devices.

12. A computer-implemented method for delivering publication content to one or more reader devices using mixed mode transmission, the computer-implemented method comprising:

segmenting, using a computing apparatus, the publication content into a plurality of publication content components;

generating, using a computing apparatus, master publication content that comprises a reference to each publication content component and indicates a structure of the publication content; and

multi-casting, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content and the plurality of publication content components via a network.

6. The system of claim 17 wherein the reference comprises a unique identifier associated with each publication content component.

11. The system of claim 15 wherein each reader device comprises an electronic paper display.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the step of segmenting further comprises segmenting the publication content based on user input data.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the user input data indicates a user'"'"'s interest in one or more categories of publication content.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the one or more categories of publication content comprise at least one of:

a Front category, a Metropolitan category, a Traffic category, a Nation category, a Politics category, a World category, a Business category, an Editorial category, an Outlook category, an Entertainment category, a Life category, a Lottery category, a Horoscope category, a Sports category, a Tech News category, and a Celebrities category.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the step of segmenting further comprises segmenting the publication content based on one or more page boundaries of the publication content.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the reference comprises a unique identifier associated with each publication content component.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the structure of the publication content indicates a display position of each publication content component.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the step of multi-casting further comprises multi-casting, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content and the plurality of publication content components in accordance with a multi-cast transmission schedule.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising uni-casting, to the one or more reader devices, at least one publication content component via the network in response to a uni-cast request from the one or more reader devices.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising uni-casting, to the one or more reader devices, the master publication content via the network in response to a uni-cast request from the one or more reader devices.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein each reader device comprises an electronic paper display.