Content generation and restructuring with provider access

• US 9,971,744 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Next Issue Media
• Inventors: Barraclough, Keith, Irvine, David, Logan, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Kells, Asher D
• Application Number:
  US15/051,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20160179763A1
• Time in Patent Office: 812 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1063 Personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1078 Logging; Metering
• 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 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0258 Registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/20 for washing or drying articles, e.g. clothes, motor cars
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, portions of media content data corresponding to respective sets of media content received from disparate content providers are restructured into renditions having an article-oriented structure. Device-indeterminate ID linking data is generated to link respective portions of each rendition with media content in the respective sets of media content. For each content provider, access is provided to portions of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content, based on the device-indeterminate ID linking data (e.g., providing verification of resulting content layout). Access is also provided to tracked subscriber access to ones of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

formatting different types of media content data having disparate formats and corresponding to respective sets of media content received from disparate content providers, into media content data in a common format type;

restructuring portions of the media content data in the common format type into restructured renditions having an article-oriented structure defined by the common format type;

for each rendition, generating respective reformatted assets, each reformatted asset being specific to one of a plurality of disparate types of devices, based upon characteristics of the disparate device types;

generating device-indeterminate ID linking data that links respective portions of each restructured rendition with portions of the media content data having disparate formats;

tracking subscriber access to the restructured renditions; and

for each content provider,

providing access to portions of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content based on the device-indeterminate ID linking data, therein providing verification of resulting content layout, and

providing access to tracked subscriber access to ones of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the sets of media content include electronic magazine issues from different electronic magazine publishers, and

the restructured renditions are arranged in an article-oriented structure for an electronic magazine including sets of media content from different ones of the electronic magazine issues.

3. The method of claim 1, further including

providing subscriber access to respective portions of the restructured renditions along with assets corresponding to the respective portion being transmitted, to users at remote user interface circuits based on, for each user:

media content access authorization data for the user,

the device-indeterminate ID linking data, and

characteristics of the remote user interface circuit via which the user accesses the media content,

for each content provider, generating data characterizing subscriber accesses to the restructured renditions.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein tracking subscriber access includes utilizing the generated data characterizing the subscriber accesses.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the access to the portions of the restructured renditions includes, for each content provider, using security data to filter the data provided to the content provider.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the security data includes data that identifies only content provided by the content provider.

7. The method of claim 1, further including, modifying the restructured renditions based on feedback provided from one of the content providers to which the access to tracked subscriber access is provided.

8. The method of claim 1, further including providing the access to tracked subscriber access to each of a plurality of advertising content providers that provide portions of the media content pertaining to advertisements, for tracked subscriber access to content bearing information pertaining to the advertising content provider.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the access to portions of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content includes providing data representing image display characteristics of the content as displayed on user devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein providing the data representing image display characteristics includes providing images that characterize images of the restructured renditions as displayed on the user devices.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein

tracking the subscriber access includes tracking subscriber views of advertising, and

providing the access to the portions of the restructured renditions includes providing information indicative of advertising placement in each of the tracked subscriber views.

12. The method of claim 1,

wherein restructuring the portions of the media content includes, for each rendition, restructuring the media content based on content-provider specified restructuring characteristics for a plurality of content providers having content in the rendition;

and

further including providing remote content provider modification of each restructured renditions for those content providers having content in the rendition by;

in response to providing the access to the portions of the restructured renditions to the content provider, accessing inputs from the content provider that characterize layout information for the restructured renditions, and

in response to the accessed inputs, modifying the restructured renditions based upon the accessed inputs and the restructuring characteristics provided by other content providers having content in the rendition.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein modifying the restructured renditions based upon the accessed inputs and the restructuring characteristics provided by other content providers having content in the rendition includes weighting the restructuring characteristics and accessed inputs from the respective content providers, and utilizing the weighting in generating the restructured rendition.

14. The method of claim 13, further including reporting results indicative of layout characteristics of the modified restructured renditions to the content provider providing the accessed inputs, and of the weighting.

15. A method comprising:

restructuring portions of media content data corresponding to respective sets of media content received from disparate content providers, into restructured renditions having an article-oriented structure;

generating device-indeterminate ID linking data that links respective portions of each rendition with media content in the respective sets of media content; and

for each content provider,

providing access to portions of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content based on the device-indeterminate ID linking data, therein providing verification of resulting content layout, and

providing access to tracked subscriber access to ones of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein

the sets of media content include electronic magazine issues from different electronic magazine publishers,

the article-oriented structure of each rendition includes sets of media content from different ones of the electronic magazine issues, and

providing the access to the portions of the restructured renditions includes, for each content provider, providing access to portions of the restructured renditions generated from the media content data provided by the content provider.

17. An apparatus comprising:

a first circuit configured and arranged to format different types of media content data having disparate formats and corresponding to respective sets of media content received from disparate content providers, into media content data in a common format type;

a second circuit configured and arranged to restructure portions of the media content data in the common format type into restructured renditions having an article-oriented structure defined by the common format type;

a third circuit configured and arranged to, for each set of media content, generate respective reformatted assets, each reformatted asset being specific to one of a plurality of disparate types of devices, based upon characteristics of the disparate device types;

a fourth circuit configured and arranged to generate device-indeterminate ID linking data that links respective portions of each rendition with portions of the media content data having disparate formats;

a fifth circuit configured and arranged to track subscriber access to the restructured renditions; and

a sixth circuit configured and arranged to, for each content provider,

provide access to portions of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content based on the device-indeterminate ID linking data, therein providing verification of resulting content layout, and

provide access to tracked subscriber access to ones of the restructured renditions bearing the content provider'"'"'s content.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the circuits include a plurality of communication ports connected by circuitry to one or more computer processors programmed to execute instructions that carry out one or more of the indicated operations, upon data received on one or more of the communication ports and upon data transmitted on one or more of the communication ports.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, further including a seventh circuit configured and arranged to provide subscriber access to respective portions of the restructured renditions along with assets corresponding to the respective portion being transmitted, to users at remote user interface circuits based on, for each user:

media content access authorization data for the user,

the device-indeterminate ID linking data, and

characteristics of the remote user interface circuit via which the user accesses the media content.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the sixth circuit includes a filter circuit configured and arranged to filter the data provided to each content provider based on security data, therein restricting access of each content provider to data generated based on sets of media content provided by the content provider.