Using RSS Archives

• US 20090077040A1
• Filed: 09/18/2008
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Moore, James F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,140,482 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

In some aspects, at least two different probes are applied to datafeed archives to derive information based on data in the archives. The probes are part of a probe plan to determine a result based on the derived information. The result is determined based on the derived information.

Claims

1. A method comprising

processing two or more independent RSS data feeds to generate two or more RSS market-specific searchable RSS datafeed archives,

generating, using a master probe device, a probe plan based on an input received from a user;

applying, using slave probe devices, at least two different probes to the archives to derive information based on data in the searchable RSS datafeed archives, the probes being part of the probe plan to determine a result based on the derived information, wherein;

at least one of the probes is applied to at least two of the searchable RSS datafeed archives, and

at least two of the probes are applied to the same searchable RSS datafeed archive;

determining the result based on the derived information, and

generating an RSS feed that includes the result.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the market specific datafeed archives comprise one or more of a real estate datafeed archive, a medical datafeed archive and a financial datafeed archive.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the two or more independent data feeds comprises storing metadata and an automatically generated importance value.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the probe plan comprises using a master engine to generate the probe plan.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the result comprises receiving sub-results from one or more of the at least two different probes, the sub-results differing in structure and format, and combining the sub-results to generate the result.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein combining the sub-results comprises identifying a first sub-result that is a duplicate or near duplicate of a second sub-result and generating a hyperlink to the second sub-result.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the slave probe devices comprise public services.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the public services are operated independently from one another.

9. A method comprising

processing two or more independent data feeds to generate two or more searchable datafeed archives,

applying at least two different probes to the archives to derive information based on data in the archives, the probes being part of a probe plan to determine a result based on the derived information, at least one of the probes being applied to at least two of the archives,

determining the result based on the derived information, and

providing the result for use in a real-world application.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the searchable datafeed archives comprise RSS searchable datafeed archives.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein processing the two or more independent datafeeds comprises processing the two or more independent datafeeds to generate market specific datafeed archives.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the market specific datafeed archives comprise one or more of a real estate datafeed archive, a medical datafeed archive and a financial datafeed archive.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein processing the two or more independent data feeds comprises storing metadata and an automatically generated importance value.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating the probe plan based on an input received from a user.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein generating the probe plan comprises using a master engine to generate the probe plan.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the probes have differing structures.

17. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the result comprises receiving sub-results from one or more of the probes, the sub-results differing in structure and format, and combining the sub-results to generate the result.

18. The method of claim 9, wherein combining the sub-results comprises identifying a first sub-result that is a duplicate or near duplicate of a second sub-result and generating a hyperlink to the second sub-result.

19. The method of claim 9, wherein providing the result comprises generating an RSS feed that includes the result.

20. A method comprising

generating, based on a probe plan and a search request, probes, the probes differing from one another and configured to search market-specific searchable datafeed archives;

receiving, in response to the probes, sub-results from one or more of the probes;

determining a result based on the sub-results; and

providing the result for use in a real-world application.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the searchable datafeed archives comprise RSS searchable datafeed archives.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the market specific datafeed archives comprise one or more of a real estate datafeed archive, a medical datafeed archive and a financial datafeed archive.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the probes have differing structures.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein determining the result comprises receiving sub-results from one or more of the probes, the sub-results differing in structure and format, and combining the sub-results to generate the result.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein providing the result comprises generating an RSS feed that includes the result.