Syndication feeds for peer computer devices and peer networks

• US 9,098,554 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2014
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qurio Holdings Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Qurio Holdings Incorporated
• Inventors: Issa, Alfredo C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Survillo, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US14/194,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20140181142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/218, 709/225, 707/770
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2471 Distributed queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1063 Discovery through centralising entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable

Abstract

Syndication feeds for peer computer devices. In one aspect, a request is received at a server for a syndicated feed from a peer on a peer-to-peer network. It is determined whether the peer is currently online or offline; if online, the requested feed is pulled from the peer and served to the requestor, and if offline, the requested feed is retrieved from a cache of the server and served to the requestor. In one embodiment, an online/offline indicator is inserted in a feed by the server to indicate to the user the online or offline status.

Claims

1. A method for distributing a syndicated feed from peer devices in a peer-to-peer network, the method comprising:

receiving a notification at a feed portal that a new syndicated feed has been generated on a peer device in the peer-to-peer network;

requesting, by the feed portal, the data for the new syndicated feed from a proxy server that is connected to the peer device in the peer-to-peer network;

receiving the new syndicated feed at the feed portal from the proxy server and storing the new syndicated feed in a database associated with the feed portal;

serving the new syndicated feed from the database upon a first request by a requestor connecting to the feed portal over a network other than the peer-to-peer network, the new syndicated feed including an online or an offline status indicator of the peer device, wherein the requestor is a feed reader provided on a device that communicates with the feed portal over the network other than the peer-to-peer network;

receiving a second request from the requestor for full content referenced by the new syndicated feed; and

serving the full content from the peer device only if the peer device is currently online consistent with the online status indicator of the device, otherwise providing a message of unavailability of the peer device to the requestor consistent with the offline status indicator of the peer device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the notification is received at the feed portal from the peer device generating the new feed.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the requestor is a web browser.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising searching feeds from a plurality of peer devices on the peer-to-peer network based on search criteria provided by a user.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the peer device generates a new feed when new content is published from the user of the peer device.