Method and system for transforming content for execution on multiple platforms

• US 7,530,016 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2004
• Issued: 05/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TiVo Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tv Works LLC
• Inventors: Carney, John, de Andrade, David, Knowles, Mark, Sahota, Ranjit
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries; Laurie
• Application Number:
  US11/023,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20050108634A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,595 Days
• Field of Search: 715/513, 715/243, 715/234
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• 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 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms.

Claims

1. A content authoring application tool comprising means for displaying (i) a tree structure of a web page, the web page being a source of content elements and the tree structure including references to said content elements, and (ii) a web page content template, the web page content template being displayed alongside the tree structure;

means for dragging content references from the tree structure into the web page content template thereby to specify how content elements from the web page are to be captured and formatted for later presentation, the content references describing location of objects within the web page;

means for modifying names of the content references within the template; and

means for marking repeating groups of the content references within the template.

2. The content authoring application tool of claim 1, further comprising repository means for storing the template.

3. The content authoring application tool of claim 1, further comprising means for creating an extensible markup language (XML) file or document from the template.

4. The content authoring application tool of claim 1, further comprising means for changing a layout of the web page by adding or modifying content in the template.

5. The content authoring application tool of claim 1, further comprising means for retrieving the web page from an Internet network.

6. A tangible machine-readable medium having embodied thereon instructions, which if executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising displaying (i) a tree structure of a web page, the web page being a source of content elements and the tree structure including references to said content elements, and (ii) a web page content template, the web page content template being displayed alongside the tree structure;

adding content references to the web page content template in response to dragging of the content references from the tree structure, the content references describing locations of objects within the web page; and

, in response to user input, modifying names of the content references within the template and marking repeating groups of the content references within the template.

7. The machine-readable medium of claim 6, further including instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising storing the template in a repository.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 6, further including instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising creating an extensible markup language (XML) file or document from the template.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 6, further including instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising changing a layout of the web page by adding or modifying content in the template.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 6, further including instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising retrieving the web page from an Internet network.