SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNET PUBLISHING

• US 20140006930A1
• Filed: 06/14/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Holonis, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Investinghouse Incorporated
• Inventors: Hollis, Richard B., Hollis, Hayden S., Schenkler, Zachary, Morwal, Arvind, Patel, Chetan
• Application Number:
  US13/918,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006930A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for internet publishing. In some aspects, the systems and methods may be implemented by software designed for users such as, for example, small businesses, to manage and implement an online digital strategy. A digital web-based platform, for example, may be used to establish and expand the online presence of a brand. In some aspects, the systems and methods may be implemented to publish, syndicate, and monetize content in an automated and seamless manner from a single interface as well as to monitor and respond to information relevant to such content.

Claims

1. A method of publishing user created content to a wide-area-network comprising:

receiving a plurality of content items from a user in a corresponding plurality of content formats;

integrating each item of the content into a separate web page available to search engines connected to the wide area network.

2. The method of claim 1, additionally comprising sending each item of content to a user selected destination on the wide-area network.

3. A computer implemented internet publishing platform comprising:

one or more computer implemented servers with associated non-transient computer readable memory comprising;

data storage space resident on non-transitory computer readable media configured to define a plurality of digital spaces available to a corresponding plurality of platform subscribers;

wherein the servers comprise processing circuitry configured for operation with one or more software modules stored on non-transitory computer readable media, wherein the software modules comprise instructions that cause the processing circuitry to;

present user interfaces to platform subscriber computers coupled to the internet that allow access to the digital spaces for uploading information and content to the digital spaces and for receiving information and content from the digital spaces;

receive and store content in a plurality of media formats received from the plurality of platform subscribers;

integrate items of content received from the plurality of platform subscribers into separate web pages available to at least some search engines coupled to the internet;

search at least portions of the internet for information related to at least one of the plurality of subscribers, to store the information in one or more of the digital spaces, and to present the information to at least one subscriber; and

send items of content received from the plurality of subscribers to social media sites coupled to the internet.

5. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 3, wherein the one or more servers are further configured to provide an integrated programming environment to execute one or more unique application programs.

6. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 5, wherein a user interface of a unique application program is displayed within one or more of the user interfaces presented by the one or more software modules.

7. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 5, wherein the integrated programming environment comprises an application programming interface.

8. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 7, wherein the application programming interface enables a plurality of software components to communicate with each other.

9. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 7, wherein the application programming interface enables a plurality of software components to communicate with the one or more software modules.

10. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 7, wherein the application programming interface enables at least one of the one or more unique application programs to communicate with a network.

11. The computer implemented internet publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising a software module configured to transmit a network message to a mobile device, the network message configured to be received and processed by an Internet publishing platform specific application program executing on the mobile device.

12. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to create and publish a plurality of media or content types to unique web pages hosted by the Internet publishing platform.

13. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 12, further comprising one or more software modules configured to add one or more data tags to the unique web pages to increase the ranking of the unique web pages by an Internet search engine.

14. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to publish a really simple syndication (RSS) feed in response to the addition of media or content into the digital space.

15. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 14, further comprising one or more software modules configured to submit the really simple syndication feed to one or more RSS search engines in response to the addition.

16. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to retrieve content from a really simple syndication (RSS) feed, and store the retrieved content in the digital space.

17. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to make available for download a browser plugin configured to integrate with the publishing platform.

18. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 17, wherein the browser plugin is further configured to collect metrics on traffic patterns or websites visited.

19. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 17, wherein the browser plugin is further configured to display information indicating a digital conversation corresponding to the digital space on a user interface.

20. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to establish a relationship between selected subscribers, wherein sharing of information, media, content, files, contacts, conversations or connections between the selected subscribers is based, at least in part, on the relationship.

21. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to periodically assigning value points to a plurality of media types within the digital space based on a locality or vertical category of the digital space.

22. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 21, further comprising one or more software modules configured to transmit a network message configured to cause a receiver to display at least two different media types in a single list view.

23. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to receive business information from a user, and to configure one or more directories, services, local map searches, mobile applications or search engines in response to receiving the business information.

24. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 23, wherein business information is contact information of a subscriber.

25. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising:

one or more software modules configured to;

receive information relating to a subscriber'"'"'s business type, industry, category or geography;

determine a list of keywords based on the received information; and

insert the keywords or meta tags based on the keywords into content pages corresponding to the subscriber.

26. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 3, further comprising one or more software modules configured to provide a messaging system to users of the publishing platform, the messaging system integrating messages received from a plurality of social network messaging systems.

27. The computer implemented publishing platform of claim 26, wherein the messaging system is configured to provide a send message feature that sends a message to a plurality of destinations, the destinations hosted by a plurality of social network messaging systems.

4. A computer implemented method of managing an internet presence comprising:

accessing a data storage space over the internet;

uploading content to the data storage space;

selecting a plurality of additional destination sites on the internet for the uploaded content;

retrieving information from the data storage space collected from the internet that relates to third party access to, use of, or commentary on the uploaded content.