Methods for publishing content
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Abstract
A system and method for publishing information to a community of users is disclosed. Published information is inclusive of, for example, calendar data, blog data and photographs. Communities may be defined by PIM data or automatically generated by a data aggregation server in response to a user-defined rubric. Published information may be provided to a recipient or in conjunction with a notification delivered to the recipient. Published data may be subject to certain read/write limitations.
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5. A method for publication of content, the method comprising:
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receiving content at a data aggregation server, the content received from a content provider; identifying members of a community; establishing a publication link with a content recipient, wherein the content recipient is a member of the community; and publishing the content to the content recipient via the publication link. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for on-demand publication of content, the method comprising:
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receiving a request for delivery of content from a content requester; initiating a polling operation of content providers, the polling operation initiated in response to the request for delivery of content; receiving content at a data aggregation server, the content received from a polled content provider following a pull operation by the data aggregation server, the pull operation in response to data received during the polling operation; establishing a publication link with the content requestor, wherein the content requestor is a member of a community authorized to receive the content from the content provider; and publishing the content to the content requestor via the publication link.
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23. A method for publication of content, the method comprising:
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receiving content at a data aggregation server, the content received from a content provider; identifying members of a community; establishing a publication link with a content recipient, wherein the content recipient is a member of the community; identifying a restrictive bandwidth condition associated with the content recipient; determining that publication of the content to the content recipient would violate the restrictive bandwidth condition; and publishing a notice of availability of the content to the content recipient via the publication link. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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