Method and system for transforming content for execution on multiple platforms

• US 7,783,968 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2004
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TiVo Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TVWorks LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Carney, John, de Andrade, David, Knowles, Mark, Sahota, Ranjit
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US11/022,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20050108637A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,071 Days
• Field of Search: 715/513, 715/234, 715/235, 715/236, 715/237, 715/238, 715/239, 715/243
• US Class Current: 715/238
• 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 computer-implemented method comprising:

parsing an Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) web page;

creating an XHTML-compliant document from the HTML web page;

extracting content from the XHTML-compliant document using a capture template specifying how elements of the XHTML-compliant document are to be located for retrieval;

creating one or more extensible markup language (XML) files or documents from the extracted content; and

transforming the XML files or documents into a displayable format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the parsing of the HTML web page includes:

converting the HTML web page to a standard XHTML-compliant document, and extracting tags and attributes from the XHTML-compliant document.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein transforming the XML files or documents includes transforming the XML files or documents into a displayable format for a television display, computing device display, or portable electronic device display.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the XML files or documents in a repository; and

storing the capture templates in a repository or machine-readable medium.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the XML files or documents includes selectively dragging tags and attributes from the parsed HTML web page into a template.

6. A processing device comprising:

a parsing unit to parse an Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) web page;

a conversion unit to create an XHTML-compliant document from the parsed HTML web page;

an extraction unit to extract content from the XHTML-compliant document using a capture template specifying how elements of the XHTML-compliant document are to be located for retrieval;

a content generating unit to create one or more extensible markup language (XML) files or documents from the extracted content; and

a transforming unit to transform the XML files or documents into a displayable format.

7. The processing device of claim 6, wherein the parsing unit is to extract tags and attributes from the HTML web page.

8. The processing device of claim 6, wherein the transforming unit is to transform the XML files or documents into a displayable format for a television display, computing device display, or portable electronic device display.

9. The processing device of claim 6, further comprising:

a repository to store the XML files or documents.

10. The processing device of claim 6, wherein the content generating unit is to drag selectively tags and attributes from the parsed HTML page into a template.

11. A machine-readable medium providing instructions, which if executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform an operation comprising:

parsing an Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) web page;

creating a XHTML-compliant document from the HTML web page;

extracting content from the XHTML-compliant document using a capture template specifying how elements of the XHTML-compliant document are to be located for retrieval;

creating one or more extensible markup language (XML) files or documents from the extracted content; and

transforming the XML files or documents into a displayable format.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, further providing instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising:

extracting tags and attributes from the HTML web page.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, further providing instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising:

transforming the XML files or documents into a displayable format for a television display, computing device display, or portable electronic device display.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, further providing instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising:

storing the XML files or documents in a repository.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, further providing instructions, which if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform an operation comprising:

selectively dragging tags and attributes from the parsed HTML page into a template.

16. A method for a content converter comprising:

converting Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) content into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file using conversion rules by creating an XHTML-compliant document from the HTML content;

extracting content from the XHTML-compliant document using a capture template specifying how elements of the XHTML-compliant document are to be located for retrieval; and

creating the XML file from the extracted content.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

creating content for a specific platform using the XML file.