SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PAGES OF CONTENT

• US 20110145841A1
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc. (ViacomCBS Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc. (ViacomCBS Incorporated)
• Inventors: SHERWOOD, John, PITTS, Daniel, SCHMIDT, Daniel, BROWN, Hunter
• Application Number:
  US12/638,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20110145841A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

Systems and methods for generating pages of content using API requests are described. Users can create web pages that are a collection of references to API queries. An example includes doors which are web pages that are portals to realms of content. Users can create doors by associating API references to a variety of previously created content assets which are called by the front-end to render the door when web users visit the door. The tool includes user interface elements that make creating and saving the API references easy. For example, pickers are provided for selecting API references to individual assets, query makers are provided for formulating previewing, merging and normalizing references to dynamic API searches, overriding functionality is provided for manually grooming the asset references returned by dynamic API searches or individual asset references, and the like.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating pages of content comprising:

providing a user with a plurality of wireframes, the wireframes comprising a plurality of tiles;

receiving a user selection of a wireframe;

providing a user with a plurality of tiles;

receiving a user selection of a plurality of tiles corresponding to the plurality of tiles in the selected wireframe;

associating a plurality of API requests corresponding to a plurality of content assets with the selected plurality of tiles to generate an automated web page; and

storing the automated web page.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising previewing the automated web page.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising modifying the automated web page.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising publishing the automated web page.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising delivering the published automated web page to a device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising modifying one or more of the selected plurality of tiles.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of content assets comprises one or more of text, an application, digital media, and an advertisement.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of selected tiles is optimized.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of wireframes includes a user-customizable wireframe.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising storing the selected wireframe and the plurality of selected tiles as a theme.

11. A computer-implemented method for generating pages of content comprising:

receiving a user request to access a web page, the web page comprising a plurality of API requests;

generating an API request to access an automated web page;

receiving the automated web page, the automated web page comprising a wireframe and a plurality of tiles, each tile having a plurality of API requests each corresponding to a request to retrieve a content asset;

generating the plurality of API requests to retrieve the content assets;

receiving the content assets;

generating a web page that includes the content assets; and

delivering the web page with the content assets to the user.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the user is a device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the user is a third party website.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising integrating the delivered web page into existing components of the third party website.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein one or more of the plurality of content assets comprises one or more of text, an application, digital media, and an advertisement.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein one or more of the plurality of tiles is optimized.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, further comprising determining one or more content assets to place into the one or more optimized tiles.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the one or more content assets are determined based on a user profile of the user based on the user'"'"'s actions.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, further comprising determining one or more locations for the one or more optimized tiles.