Method, system and program product for controlling web content usage

• US 7,386,783 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2003
• Issued: 06/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hulu LLC (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Masselle, Eric L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Blackwell; James H
• Application Number:
  US10/425,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20040216034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,870 Days
• Field of Search: 715/500.1, 715/513, 715/203, 715/234, 715/240, 715/243, 709/225, 709/230, 709/203, 709/217, 709/246, 709/248, 709/219, 707/104.1, 707/4, 707/9, 707/10, 713/201, 705/14, 705/44
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment

Abstract

Under the present invention, control tags are attached to web content at a content source. The control tags are used to control use of the web content on a portal page. Specifically, a first type of control tag that can be attached to be content under the present invention is an exclusionary tag. Once attached, the exclusionary tag prevents the web content from being used on the portal page. A second type of control tag that can be attached to web content under the present invention is a set of grouping tags. The set of grouping tags can be used to require certain sections of the web content to be used/grouped together on the web page.

Claims

1. A method for controlling web content usage, comprising:

providing web content at a content source, wherein the web content comprises a plurality of sections of web content from a plurality of sources; and

attaching a control tag to the web content at the content source to control use of the web content on a portal page, prior to delivery of the web content to a portal page server, wherein the attaching step comprises attaching at least one of;

an exclusionary tag to the web content, wherein the exclusionary tag prevents the web content from subsequently being used on the portal page, or

a set of grouping tags to the plurality of sections of web content, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises a set of parent grouping tags that causes at least two of the plurality of sections of web content to be used together on the portal page, and wherein set of grouping tags further comprises a set of nested grouping tags that allows one of the plurality of sections of web content to be used apart from the at least two of the plurality of sections on the portal page, further wherein the subsequent use of the web content with the attached control tag is independent of a type of device used to access web content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the use is selected from a group consisting of distribution and dissemination.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content is clipped from content source in accordance with the control tag.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein use of the web content on a portal page is controlled based on the control tag.

5. A system recorded on a storage medium for controlling web content usage comprising a tagging system for attaching a control tag to web content at a content source, prior to delivery of the web content to a portal page server, wherein use of the web content on a portal page is controlled based on the control tag, wherein the web content comprises a plurality of sections of web content from a plurality of sources, wherein the tagging system comprises at least one of:

an exclusionary tag to the web content, wherein the exclusionary tag prevents the web content from subsequently being used on the portal page, or

a grouping system for attaching a set of grouping tags to the plurality of sections of web content, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises a set of parent grouping tags that causes at least two of the plurality of sections of web content to be used together on the portal page, further wherein the subsequent use of the web content with the attached control tag is independent of a type of device used to access web content.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the use is selected from a group consisting of distribution and dissemination.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the web content is clipped from content source in accordance with the control tag.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein use of the web content on a portal page is controlled based on the control tag.

9. A program product stored on a recordable medium for controlling web content usage, which when executed, comprises program code for attaching a control tag to web content at a content source, wherein use of the web content on a portal page is controlled based on the control tag, prior to delivery of the web content to a portal page server, wherein the web content comprises a plurality of sections of web content, wherein the program code for attaching comprises program code for attaching at least one of:

an exclusionary tag to the web content, wherein the exclusionary tag prevents the web content from subsequently being used on the portal page, or

a set of grouping tags to the plurality of sections of web content from a plurality of sources, wherein the set of grouping tags comprises a set of parent grouping tags that causes at least two of the plurality of sections of web content to be used together on the portal page, further wherein the subsequent use of the web content with the attached control tag is independent of a type of whether a hand held device used to access web content.

10. The program product of claim 9, wherein the use is selected from a group consisting of distribution and dissemination.

11. The program product of claim 9, wherein the web content is clipped from content source in accordance with the control tag.

12. The program product of claim 9, wherein the use is selected from a group consisting of distribution and dissemination.