Method for distributing content to a user station
First Claim
1. A method for distributing content to a user station, comprising:
- accessing by the user station first remote content from a first remote content source when a first portable storage medium, having first fixed content and computer executable software stored thereon, is used at the user station and the computer executable software is at least temporarily loaded on the user station, the first remote content relating to the first fixed content; and
accessing second remote content from a second remote content source, the second remote content relating to second fixed content, the second fixed content being different from the first fixed content, and the second fixed content being included on a second portable storage medium;
presenting the first fixed content at the user station together with the first remote content in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the first fixed content and the first remote content; and
presenting the second fixed content at the user station together with the second remote content in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the second fixed content and the second remote content.
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Abstract
A method for controlling a user station configured for communications with a multiplicity of independently-operated data sources via a non-proprietary network includes steps for providing a user interface to enable a user at the user station to select multiple ones of the multiplicity of independently-operated data object sources to be polled; automatically polling each of the selected data object sources in order to determine availability of desired data at each of the selected data object sources; and automatically transporting desired data determined to be available from each of the selected data object sources to the user station. Software and a user station for implementing the method are also described.
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32 Claims
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1. A method for distributing content to a user station, comprising:
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accessing by the user station first remote content from a first remote content source when a first portable storage medium, having first fixed content and computer executable software stored thereon, is used at the user station and the computer executable software is at least temporarily loaded on the user station, the first remote content relating to the first fixed content; and accessing second remote content from a second remote content source, the second remote content relating to second fixed content, the second fixed content being different from the first fixed content, and the second fixed content being included on a second portable storage medium; presenting the first fixed content at the user station together with the first remote content in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the first fixed content and the first remote content; and presenting the second fixed content at the user station together with the second remote content in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the second fixed content and the second remote content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A first portable storage medium having stored thereon first fixed content and computer-executable instructions, that, if executed by a computing device at a user station, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:
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accessing first remote content from a first remote content source, the first remote content relating to the first fixed content; and accessing second remote content from a second remote content source, the second remote content relating to second fixed content, the second fixed content being different from the first fixed content, and the second fixed content being included on a second portable storage medium; presenting the first fixed content at the user station together with the first remote content in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the first fixed content and the first remote content; and presenting the second fixed content at the user station together with the second remote content in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the second fixed content and the second remote content. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for distributing content to a user station, comprising:
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providing, on a computing device, a first content object that is retained in persistent storage at the user station and includes metadata sufficient to enable a software transporter to obtain at least one first supplementary content object associated with the first content object from a remote source over a communications network; and using a second content object that is retained in persistent storage at the user station and includes metadata sufficient to obtain at least one second supplementary content object associated with the second content object from a remote source over a communications network; receiving at the user station the second supplementary content object from a remote source that is different from the remote source that provides the first supplementary content object; determining the sources from which to receive the first and second supplementary content objects transparently to a user at the user station as a function of the respective metadata; presenting the first content object at the user station together with the first supplementary content object in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the first content object and the first supplementary content object; and presenting the second content object at the user station together with the second supplementary content object in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the second content object and the second supplementary content object. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A method for distributing content to a user station, comprising:
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providing a first content object that is retained in persistent storage at the user station and includes metadata sufficient to enable a software transporter at the user station to obtain at least one first supplementary content object associated with first content object from a remote source over a communications network, providing said at least one first supplementary content object, said software transporter being used in conjunction with a second content object that is retained in persistent storage at the user station and includes metadata sufficient to enable said software transporter at the user station to obtain at least one second supplementary content object associated with said second content object from a remote source over a communications network, providing said second supplementary content object from a remote source that is different from the remote source that provides the first supplementary content object, and determining the sources from which to provide the first and second supplementary content objects transparently to the a user at the user station as a function of the respective metadata; presenting the first content object at the user station together with the first supplementary content object in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the first content object and the first supplementary content object; and presenting the second content object at the user station together with the second supplementary content object in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the second content object and the second supplmentary content object. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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30. A method for distributing content to a user station, comprising:
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providing, on a computing device, a first content object that is retained in persistent storage at the user station and includes metadata sufficient to enable a software transporter to obtain at least one first supplementary content object associated with the first content object from a remote source over a communications network; and using a second content object that is retained in persistent storage at the user station and includes metadata sufficient to obtain at least one second supplementary content object associated with the second content object from a remote source over a communications network; receiving at the user station the second supplementary content object from a remote source; determining the sources from which to receive the first and second supplementary content objects transparently to a user at the user station as a function of the respective metadata; presenting the first content object at the user station together with the first supplementary content object in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the first content object and the first supplementary content object; and presenting the second content object at the user station together with the second supplementary content object in such a manner to enable perceiving a seamless integration of the second content object and the second supplementary content object. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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