RSS Hostable Control

• US 20070245251A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lyndersay, Sean, Gandhi, Amar, Kim, Jane
• Granted Patent: US 7,979,803 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail

Abstract

The embodiments described above utilize and leverage RSS to enable a user to interact more easily with different types of data, or data from different sources that are available over the web. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a hostable and/or customizable control is provided and gives the user the ability to interact with RSS feeds to store and further manipulate collections of items from different RSS feeds.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media embodying computer-executable instructions which, when executed, implement an RSS hostable control that provides a user with the ability to interact with RSS feeds to build collections that contain items from different RSS feeds.

2. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the RSS hostable control can be hosted by a web page.

3. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the RSS hostable control can be hosted by an application.

4. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 3, wherein the application resides in the form of a browser.

5. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the hostable control supports features that comprise one or more of:

default actions, custom actions or file system interactions.

6. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the hostable control supports features that comprise one or more of:

multiple views or custom views.

7. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the hostable control supports features comprising:

default actions, custom actions, file system interactions, multiple views and custom views.

8. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein a collection includes XML for each of the items from the different feeds.

9. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the items comprise different types of items.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

enabling a user, via a user interface, to select individual RSS items from different RSS feeds; and

establishing a collection that contains the selected RSS items.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the acts of enabling and establishing are performed, at least in part, by a browser.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the act of establishing comprises parsing XML associated with said different RSS feeds and selecting XML that is associated with individual items selected by the user.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the act of establishing is performed, at least in part, by a hostable control that can bind to an RSS feed or a local store.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the hostable control can be hosted by a web site.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the selected RSS items can comprise different types of items.

16. The method of claim 10 further comprising enabling the user to perform one or more of:

default actions, custom actions or file system interactions.

17. The method of claim 10 further comprising enabling the user to view the items of a collection in one or more of:

a list view, an icon view, a detail view, or a template view.

18. The method of claim 10 further comprising enabling write access to one or more of the selected RSS items in the collection.

19. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing one or more RSS hostable controls, individual controls being configured to enable a user to select different types of items from different RSS feeds and build a collection of items, the collection comprising XML from the different RSS feeds, the XML describing individual items of the collection; and

assigning one or more actions to items of a collection.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the act of providing is performed by a browser.