Podcasting content associated with a user account

• US 20070214485A1
• Filed: 03/09/2006
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Thorson, Derral C., Jaramillo, David, Redman, Jerry W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,092,542 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• 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 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for podcasting content associated with a user account. Embodiments include aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources; synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into a podcast capable of being rendered on a digital media player; and providing the podcast for download from a URL. Embodiments also typically include receiving a request for the podcast; and transmitting in response to the request the podcast in a response to the request.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for podcasting content associated with a user account, 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 a podcast capable of being rendered on a digital media player; and

providing the podcast for download from a URL.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request for the podcast; and

transmitting in response to the request the podcast in a response to the request.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into a podcast for rendering on a digital media player further comprises:

selecting content for inclusion in the podcast;

extracting text from the selected content;

creating a media file; and

storing the extracted text of the selected content as metadata associated with the media file.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein selecting content for inclusion in the podcast further comprises receiving a requestor'"'"'s selection of content for inclusion in the podcast.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

extracting text from the selected content for audio rendering in the podcast;

converting the text to speech; and

recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

creating metadata describing the content selected for inclusion in the podcast; and

storing the created metadata describing the selected content as metadata associated with the media file.

7. A computer-implemented system for podcasting content associated with a user account, 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 a podcast capable of being rendered on a digital media player; and

providing the podcast for download from a URL.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the computer memory also has disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

receiving a request for the podcast; and

transmitting in response to the request the podcast in a response to the request.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into a podcast for rendering on a digital media player further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

selecting content for inclusion in the podcast;

extracting text from the selected content;

creating a media file; and

storing the extracted text of the selected content as metadata associated with the media file.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein computer program instructions capable of selecting content for inclusion in the podcast further comprise computer program instructions capable of receiving a requestor'"'"'s selection of content for inclusion in the podcast.

11. The system of claim 9 further comprising computer program instructions capable of:

extracting text from the selected content for audio rendering in the podcast;

converting the text to speech; and

recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file.

12. The system of claim 9 further comprising computer program instructions capable of:

creating metadata describing the content selected for inclusion in the podcast; and

storing the created metadata describing the selected content as metadata associated with the media file.

13. A computer-implemented computer program product for podcasting content associated with a user account, 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 a podcast capable of being rendered on a digital media player; and

computer program instructions for providing the podcast for download from a URL.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising:

computer program instructions for receiving a request for the podcast; and

computer program instructions for transmitting in response to the request the podcast in a response to the request.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into a podcast for rendering on a digital media player further comprise:

computer program instructions for selecting content for inclusion in the podcast;

computer program instructions for extracting text from the selected content;

computer program instructions for creating a media file; and

computer program instructions for storing the extracted text of the selected content as metadata associated with the media file.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions for selecting content for inclusion in the podcast further comprise computer program instructions for receiving a requestor'"'"'s selection of content for inclusion in the podcast.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising:

computer program instructions for extracting text from the selected content for audio rendering in the podcast;

computer program instructions for converting the text to speech; and

computer program instructions for recording the speech in the audio portion of the media file.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising:

computer program instructions for creating metadata describing the content selected for inclusion in the podcast; and

computer program instructions for storing the created metadata describing the selected content as metadata associated with the media file.

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.