Method and system for transforming content for execution on multiple platforms

• US 9,699,265 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2013
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TiVo Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Sahota, Ranjit, Carney, John, de Andrade, David, Knowles, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie
• Application Number:
  US14/139,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20140189500A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,288 Days
• 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 method, comprising:

creating, by at least one computing device, a platform-neutral template based on input from a user with respect to a web page displayed to the user;

generating, by the at least one computing device, platform-neutral content by extracting data from content of a web page by using the platform-neutral template;

combining, by the at least one computing device, the platform-neutral content with video content, resulting in combined content; and

presenting the combined content for display,

wherein the presenting comprises dynamically loading the platform-neutral content in a cache, generating the combined content in the cache, and sending the combined content from the cache to a display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the using comprises parsing a first hypertext markup language (HTML) document of the web page.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the platform-neutral content comprises an extensible markup language (XML) document.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the presenting comprises converting the XML document into a second HTML document.

5. The method of claim 1. further comprising displaying the combined content by the display device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the dynamically loading is performed as a batch run according to a predetermined schedule.

7. A method, comprising:

receiving first content in a first format from an Internet web page;

parsing the first content to generate second content in a second format;

combining, by at least one computing device, the second content with video content to generate combined content; and

presenting the combined content for display on a first platform based on localization rules associated with the first platform, and presenting the combined content for display on a second platform using localization rules associated with the second platform,

wherein the localization rules associated with the first platform are dependent on a geographic location of the first platform and the localization rules associated with the second platform are dependent on a geographic location of the second platform.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first content comprises a first hypertext markup language (HTML) document and the second content comprises an extensible markup language (XML) document.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the combined content comprises a second HTML document.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising sending the combined content to a display device of the first platform and to a display device of the second platform.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the first content comprises a hypertext markup language (HTML) document and wherein the parsing comprises determining one or more HTML tags of the HTML document, the method further comprising removing at least one of the one or more HTML tags to generate the second content.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the second content is platform-neutral content.