Content Syndication Platform

• US 20140115109A1
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Gandhi, Amar S., Praitis, Edward J., Kim, Jane T., von Koch, Walter V., Gould, William, Morgan, Bruce A., Kwan, Cindy, Lyndersay, Sean O.
• Granted Patent: US 9,762,668 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/51 at application loading time, e.g. accepting, rejecting, starting or inhibiting executable software based on integrity or source reliability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more computing devices comprising:

obtaining, by an RSS (really simple syndication) platform implemented via the one or more computing devices, multiple feeds of RSS data having multiple file formats;

converting the RSS data of the multiple feeds having multiple file formats into a common format that is usable by different types of applications;

exposing an object model configured to;

provide a hierarchal representation of subscriptions to the multiple feeds; and

enable the different types of applications to access the converted RSS data for the multiple feeds through the hierarchal representation.