Method and system for managing digital content including streaming media

• US 9,407,963 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2008
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: DeShan, Jay Brent, Gray, Chad Ric, Do, Huong Thi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bhatia, Ajay
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jiang, Haimei
• Application Number:
  US12/183,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20100030744A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,924 Days
• Field of Search: 715/745, 715/764
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739

Abstract

The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines if the feed files are approved by applying a template to the feed files and also receives request files from the subscribers where each request file contains search criteria. The method provides one or more answer files in response to the request files where each answer file identifies feed files that meet the search criteria of a corresponding request file. The answer files are used to access or permit access to digital content on the web. In addition, a graphical user interface is described to manage, edit, promote and delete the feed files provided to the system.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to generate a graphical user interface comprising:

a display window that visibly presents in a display of a computing device and permits, via the computing device, editing of descriptive information comprised within a feed file, the descriptive information corresponding to an event and the event'"'"'s streaming content, wherein the descriptive information is separated into at least two groups of descriptive information;

a backpack window that stores, displays and facilitates user access to user-selected feed files, links to user-selected searches for the feed files that are stored in a global media database, and links to a type tag value indicating a level of the data among the at least two groups of descriptive information;

a plurality of tabs located in the display window for selecting among the at least two groups of descriptive information, each tab of the plurality displaying one of the at least two groups of the feed file'"'"'s descriptive information; and

a save button located in the display window configured to store the feed file'"'"'s descriptive information in the global media database.

2. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1, further comprising instructions that generate on the graphical interface a button configured to store a link to the event identified in the feed file and associated descriptive information in the backpack window.

3. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1, further comprising instructions that generate on the graphical interface a Hotlist window and a button configured to open the Hotlist window, the Hotlist window for adding the feed file to a specific location within the database.

4. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 3, wherein the feed file is one of a plurality of feed files, the Hotlist window comprising:

the type tag value being used upon displaying at least one of the plurality of feed files.

5. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 4 further comprising instructions such that the Hotlist window is sectioned off according to content in the feed files based on similar type tag values.

6. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the sectioned Hotlist window visibly displays the content of the feed files.

7. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5 further comprising instructions such that the sectioned Hotlist window is sectioned off into three data windows.

8. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5 further comprising instructions such that the Hotlist window is sectioned off according to a category corresponding to the content of the feed file.

9. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 7 further comprising instructions such that the data windows comprise at least one pane allowing a user to manage an incoming feed file and the incoming feed file'"'"'s descriptive information.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium comprising processor-executable instructions for generating;

a display window configured to visibly present in a display of a computing device and to permit, via the computing device, editing of descriptive information comprised within a feed file, the descriptive information corresponding to an event and the event'"'"'s streaming content, wherein the descriptive information is separated into at least two groups of descriptive information;

a backpack window that stores, displays and facilitates user access to user-selected feed files, links to user-selected searches for the feed files that are stored in a global media database, and links to a type tag value indicating a level of the data among the at least two groups of descriptive information;

a plurality of tabs located in the display window for selecting among the at least two groups of descriptive information, each tab of the plurality displaying one of the at least two groups of the feed file'"'"'s descriptive information; and

a save button located in the display window configured to store the feed file'"'"'s descriptive information in the global media database.