Publishing content through RSS feeds

• US 20070192674A1
• Filed: 02/13/2006
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Thorson, Derral C., Jaramillo, David, Redman, Jerry W.
• Application Number:
  US11/352,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20070192674A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for publishing content. Embodiments include aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources; synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device; and publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for publishing content, the method comprising:

aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources;

synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device; and

publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed further comprises:

establishing one or more hyperlinks to the synthesized content;

inserting in an RSS feed the one or more hyperlinks; and

associating in the RSS feed with each hyperlink metadata describing the synthesized content accessible through the hyperlink.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising transmitting the RSS feed to a rendering device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed, further comprises

receiving a request for the synthesized content through an invocation of a hyperlink in the RSS feed;

and

sending to the rendering device, in response to the request, a response containing the synthesized content.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources further comprises:

establishing a user account for the user;

retrieving content of disparate data types from identified disparate data sources associated with the user account;

storing the retrieved content; and

associating the stored content with the user account.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device further comprises:

identifying at least a portion of the aggregated content for delivery to the particular data rendering device; and

translating the portion of the aggregated content into text content and markup associated with the text content in accordance with device profiles for the rendering device.

7. A system for publishing content, the system comprising:

a computer processor;

a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor;

the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of;

aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources;

synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device; and

publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

establishing one or more hyperlinks to the synthesized content;

inserting in an RSS feed the one or more hyperlinks; and

associating in the RSS feed with each hyperlink metadata describing the synthesized content accessible through the hyperlink.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the computer memory also has disposed within it computer program instructions capable of transmitting the RSS feed to a rendering device.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed, further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

receiving a request for the synthesized content through an invocation of a hyperlink in the RSS feed; and

sending to the rendering device, in response to the request, a response containing the synthesized content.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

establishing a user account for the user;

retrieving content of disparate data types from identified disparate data sources associated with the user account;

storing the retrieved content; and

associating the stored content with the user account.

12. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

identifying at least a portion of the aggregated content for delivery to the particular data rendering device; and

translating the portion of the aggregated content into text content and markup associated with the text content in accordance with device profiles for the rendering device.

13. A computer-implemented computer program product for publishing content, the computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions for aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources;

computer program instructions for synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device; and

computer program instructions for publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed further comprise:

computer program instructions for establishing one or more hyperlinks to the synthesized content;

computer program instructions for inserting in an RSS feed the one or more hyperlinks; and

computer program instructions for associating in the RSS feed with each hyperlink metadata describing the synthesized content accessible through the hyperlink.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 further comprising computer program instructions for transmitting the RSS feed to a rendering device.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed, further comprise:

computer program instructions for receiving a request for the synthesized content through an invocation of a hyperlink in the RSS feed; and

computer program instructions for sending to the rendering device, in response to the request, a response containing the synthesized content.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources further comprise:

computer program instructions for establishing a user account for the user;

computer program instructions for retrieving content of disparate data types from identified disparate data sources associated with the user account; and

computer program instructions for storing the retrieved content; and

computer program instructions for associating the stored content with the user account.

18. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device further comprise:

computer program instructions for identifying at least a portion of the aggregated content for delivery to the particular data rendering device; and

computer program instructions for translating the portion of the aggregated content into text content and markup associated with the text content in accordance with device profiles for the rendering device.

19. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a recording medium.

20. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a transmission medium.