FEED VALIDATOR

• US 20110087638A1
• Filed: 10/09/2009
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: MCLAUGHLIN, GARY THOMAS MARTIN, KLIMCHUK, IGOR, MCKEVITT, PAUL JOHN, O'SULLIVAN, EDWIN ANTHONY
• Granted Patent: US 9,002,841 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/687
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating feed schemas and validating feeds are provided. A user interface may be provided that displays the schema in one pane, while providing drop-down menus for defining new schema nodes in a separate pane. An interface for validating the schema may show the feed as it will be displayed on a webpage utilizing the feed.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of validating a feed against a schema, the method comprising:

receiving input describing a feed location for the feed that is to be validated;

receiving a selection of a schema against which the feed is to be validated;

receiving a request to validate the feed against the schema;

determining that the feed conforms to requirements of the schema, thereby validating the feed; and

displaying at least a portion of feed content from the feed in a representation that is based on a display template that utilizes the schema, thereby indicating to a user that the feed has been successfully validated against the schema.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the feed location is an HTTP address.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the method further includes displaying a selection interface that displays a plurality of schemas used by a content provider to display the feed content through a web site operated by the content provider, and wherein the selection of the schema occurs when the user selects one of the plurality of schemas.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the method further includes:

prior to said determining, receiving a request to view the schema; and

displaying the schema.

5. The media of claim 1, wherein the method further includes displaying a user interface through which one of a plurality of display templates may be selected;

and

receiving a selection of one of the plurality of display templates.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein the display template is a generic template, and wherein the method further includes:

displaying a user interface that displays fields of the feed content with a selection box adjacent to each of the fields; and

receiving a selection of one or more of the fields through the selection box to which the one or more of the fields are adjacent.

7. The media of claim 6, wherein the representation includes only the feed content corresponding to the one or more of the fields.

8. A method of creating a schema that is used to specify an organizational structure for a feed, the method comprising:

displaying a schema-creation user interface that includes a specification portion through which schema attributes are received and a schema-representation portion that displays a hierarchical depiction of the schema;

receiving, through the specification portion, an instruction to add an element to the schema; and

displaying, in the schema-representation portion, the hierarchical depiction of the schema with the element.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the hierarchical depiction is updated dynamically as the element is added.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the specification portion includes at least one field through which one or more of the element'"'"'s attributes are specified.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the at least one field is a drop-down menu that displays available attributes for selection.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the method further includes receiving a selection of an individual element displayed in the hierarchical depiction;

and displaying the individual element and the individual element'"'"'s attributes in the specification portion

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the feed is one or more of an RSS feed and an Atom feed.

14. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed perform a method of creating and validating schema for a feed, the method including:

displaying a schema-creation user interface that includes a specification portion through which a schema'"'"'s attributes are received;

receiving, through the specification portion, attributes of the schema;

receiving an instruction to save the schema;

receiving input describing a feed location for the feed that is to be validated against the schema;

receiving a request to validate the feed against the schema;

determining that the feed conforms to requirements of the schema, thereby validating the feed; and

displaying a validation confirmation.

15. The media of claim 14, wherein the method the schema-creation user interface also includes a schema-representation portion that displays a hierarchical depiction of the schema;

and wherein the method further includes displaying, in the schema-representation portion, the hierarchical depiction of the schema.

16. The media of claim 15, wherein the hierarchical depiction is updated dynamically as elements are added to the schema.

17. The media of claim 14, wherein the specification portion includes at least one drop-down menu through which at least one attribute associated with the schema is specified.

18. The media of claim 14, wherein the method further includes displaying at least a portion of feed content from the feed in a representation that is based on a display template that utilizes the schema, thereby indicating to a user that the feed has been successfully validated against the schema.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the method further includes displaying a user interface through which one of a plurality of display templates may be selected;

and

receiving a selection of one of the plurality of display templates.

20. The media of claim 19, wherein the display template is a generic template, and wherein the method further includes:

displaying a user interface that displays fields of the feed content with a selection box adjacent to each of the fields; and

receiving a selection of one or more of the fields through the selection box to which the one or more of the fields are adjacent.