System and Method for Real-Time Content Aggregation and Syndication

• US 20120047176A1
• Filed: 11/02/2011
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Timmons, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 8,423,587 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing

Abstract

A system and methodology for real-time content aggregation and syndication is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for assisting a user with extracting items relevant to search queries from documents including items of various types, the method comprises steps of: receiving a search query specifying a search phrase and a particular item type; identifying documents matching the search phrase; for each matching document, determining whether the document includes an item having the particular item type; and extracting items having the particular item type from the matching documents for display to the user. The solution enables a user to aggregate and syndicate content without a professional content manager or complicated content management software tools.

Claims

1-42. -42. (canceled)

43. A method for generating a single document containing items of content retrieved from one or more Web pages, the method comprising:

receiving a request for one or more items of content, the request comprising (a) one or more keywords and (b) one or more extended attributes;

programmatically retrieving one or more Web pages based on at least the one or more keywords;

parsing via software each of the one or more Web pages into one or more component objects, each component object (a) representing an item of content from the one or more Web pages and (b) yielding one or more feature extraction objects;

selecting, based on different of (a) the one or more extended attributes and (b) the one or more feature extraction objects, particular component objects yielding selected component objects; and

aggregating the selected component objects into a single document.

44. The method of claim 43, wherein the method is performed at a client device.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein the method is performed within a software application.

46. The method of claim 45, wherein the software application is a Web browser.

47. The method of claim 43, wherein the one or more extended attributes comprise an item type.

48. The method of claim 47, wherein the item type comprises one of (a) a headline, (b) text, (c) an article, (d) a graphic object, (e) an image, (f) a byline, or (g) a button.

49. The method of claim 43, wherein the one or more extended attributes comprise an item size.

50. The method of claim 43, wherein the method is performed on a server.

51. A processor-based system for generating a single document containing items of content retrieved from one or more Web pages, the processor-based system comprising:

an interface configured to receive a request for one or more items of content, the request comprising (a) one or more keywords and (b) one or more extended attributes; and

application software configured to;

retrieve one or more Web pages based on at least the one or more keywords,

parse each of the one or more Web pages into one or more component objects, each component object (a) representing an item of content from the one or more Web pages and (b) yielding one or more feature extraction objects,

select, based on different of (a) the one or more extended attributes and (b) the one or more feature extraction objects, particular component objects yielding selected component objects, and

aggregate the selected component objects into a single document.

52. The processor-based system of claim 51, wherein the processor-based system is implemented on a client device.

53. The processor-based system of claim 52, wherein the processor-based system comprises a Web browser.

54. The processor-based system of claim 51, wherein the one or more extended attributes comprise an item type.

55. The processor-based system of claim 54, wherein the item type comprises one of (a) a headline, (b) text, (c) an article, (d) a graphic object, (e) an image, (f) a byline, or (g) a button.

56. The processor-based system of claim 51, wherein the one or more extended attributes comprise an item size.

57. The processor-based system of claim 51, wherein the processor-based system method is implemented on a server.