WIDGET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND ADVERTISING SYSTEMS RELATED THERETO

• US 20080195483A1
• Filed: 12/05/2007
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James F. Moore
• Original Assignee: James F. Moore
• Inventors: Moore, James F.
• Application Number:
  US11/951,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20080195483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.69
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32

Abstract

Systems and methods disclosed herein support use, re-use, and recomposition of widgets and other web content, such as by providing a user interface for controlling the interrelationship and display of widgets and the like. In one aspect, an OPML-based system expresses relationships among discrete components of web content through an OPML outline. In another aspect, a URL-based service dynamically creates composite web content according to functional calls posted to a web-accessible URL.

Claims

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23. A method comprising:

receiving a request at a server from a client, the request including a URL specifying a network address of the server, an identification of the location of remote content, and a description of how the remote content is to be composed into a web page;

fetching the remote content to the server; and

composing the remote content into the web page according to the description.

24. The method of claim 23 further comprising responding to the request with the web page.

25. The method of claim 23 further comprising transmitting the web page to a remote host and responding to the request with a URL of the web page at the remote host.

26. The method of claim 23 further comprising transmitting status information concerning the request to the client.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein transmitting status information includes transmitting a URL.

28. The method of claim 26 wherein transmitting status information includes transmitting a message using one or more of electronic mail and an instant message.

29. The method of claim 23 further comprising transmitting error information concerning the request to the client.

30. The method of claim 29 wherein the error information concerns availability of one or more sources of the remote content.

31. The method of claim 23 wherein the remote content includes web content.

32. The method of claim 23 wherein the remote content includes a widget.

33. The method of claim 23 wherein the remote content includes one or more of a syndicated data feed, a network-accessible database, and multimedia.

34. The method of claim 23 further comprising including an advertisement in the web page.

35. The method of claim 34 further comprising receiving bids for placement of the advertisement within the web page according to one or more of size, position, and content.

36. The method of claim 34 further comprising controlling selection of the advertisement according to the description.

37. The method of claim 34 wherein the description includes a request to withhold advertising from the web page, the method including assessing a fee for the request when no advertisement is included in the web page.

38. A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:

receiving a request at a server from a client, the request including a URL specifying a network address of the server, an identification of the location of remote content, and a description of how the remote content is to be composed into a web page;

fetching the remote content to the server; and

composing the remote content into the web page according to the description.

39. The computer program product of claim 38 further comprising code that performs the step of responding to the request with the web page.

40. The computer program product of claim 38 further comprising code that performs the step of transmitting the web page to a remote host and responding to the request with a URL of the web page at the remote host.

41. The computer program product of claim 38 further comprising code that performs the step of transmitting status information concerning the request to the client.

42. The computer program product of claim 41 wherein transmitting status information includes transmitting a URL.

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