AD-HOC WEB CONTENT PLAYER

• US 20080141132A1
• Filed: 11/20/2007
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daniel E. Tsai
• Original Assignee: Daniel E. Tsai
• Inventors: Tsai, Daniel E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,417,758 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions

Abstract

A system for dynamically playing information using conventional feeds and ad-hoc feeds to produce “playable” content includes a device that executes a player engine, the player engine collecting, combining and sequencing items to play based on selection criteria and device context, of text, image, video content by parsing selective tags, patterns, text, identifiers and resource types of interest on resources such as web pages to produce playable content, storing the playable contents results from parsing in a queue of playable feed items, selecting items from the queue to produce an ad-hoc feed and playing the ad-hoc feed.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor;

a display; and

a memory executing a computer program for dynamic playback of information from conventional feeds and ad-hoc feeds, the computer program product comprises instructions to cause the processor to;

produce “

playable”

content from ad-hoc feeds;

manage a queue of queued items of playable content that includes playable content from the ad-hoc feeds;

play the queued items by cycling through queued items in the queue according to criteria specified for playback of the content; and

render a player window on the display of the system to display the playable content in at least one player window.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein single or simultaneous, asynchronous players run on the device, each having play engines that cycle though the queued items.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the items are played without user interaction.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the items can include syndication feeds, podcast feeds and web folders of images, text, and video data.

5. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a set of interaction tools to facilitate interaction with the queued items, as the queued items are played, and to perform operations on the played item.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the interactions include at least one of to make comments, to purchase an item, to make a call, and to make a reservation.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a module to transform content into ad-hoc feeds.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the player is integrated into a browser and is available at any time to load feeds during browsing.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the player is a site-tool playing products on an e-commerce site.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the play engine further comprises:

a promo box that provides quick links to playable content, where a link in the promo box can be clicked on and a player loaded immediately, as opposed to having to drag-and-drop content from a browser page.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein sponsored messages, links, and advertisement are shown in the promo box to generate revenue and providing additional content.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the user controls the type of information sent to their promo box, by topic, location, time, audience, activity, and other properties.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the playable content includes ad-hoc feeds, and the method further comprises:

converting the ad-hoc feeds to produce the playable content.

13. A method executed on a device, the method comprises:

receiving playable feeds of content;

dynamically playing the content, by;

queuing items comprising playable content; and

cycling through the queued items to play the content.

15. A computer implement method of generating revenue from promotions, the method comprises:

offering promotion slots by set price and time requirements; and

running the promotions in a round robin sequence or a sequence based on user factors.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the method reaches a large audience for a fixed or low cost.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein for a given sign-up period, fewer promotions get more play time.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein for a given sign-up period more promotions get less play time.

19. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium for playing content, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a device to:

queue items of playable content;

execute a play engine that cycles through queued items to play the items; and

provide interaction tools for items based on at least one of the context of the user, device and location.

20. The computer program product of claim 19 further comprising instructions to

customized the queued items of playable content by at least one property of topic, location, time, audience, and activity.

21. A system for dynamically playing information using conventional feeds and ad-hoc feeds to produce “

playable”

content comprises;

a device player that executes a player engine, the player engine collecting, combining and sequencing items to play based on selection criteria and device context, of text, image, video content by;

parsing selective tags, patterns, text, identifiers and resource types of interest on resources such as web pages to produce playable content;

storing the playable contents results from parsing in a queue of playable feed items,

selecting items from the queue to produce an ad-hoc feed; and

rendering the ad-hoc feed.

22. The system of claim 21 wherein the device player customizes the playable content by at least one property of topic, location, time, audience, and activity.