Method and Apparatus to Search Data and Notify and Update a User

• US 20140317075A1
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Larry Maurice Deutsch
• Original Assignee: Larry Maurice Deutsch
• Inventors: Deutsch, Larry Maurice
• Application Number:
  US14/079,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20140317075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1787 Details of non-transparently synchronising file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1805 Append-only file systems, e.g. using logs or journals to store data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24552 Database cache management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24553 of query operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• 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 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

The present invention allows a user to subscribe to multiple concurrent channels of syndicated content published over the internet. The user receives notification of the content which is new since the previous time that the user accessed a channel. The user can select the frequency of checking for new content and the user can specify how far back in time to check. In addition, the user can specify a maximum number of changes to be presented.

Claims

1. A digital processing apparatus 1000 comprising:

an operating system 1480;

a control logic 1410, in communication with the operating system 1480, comprising a content parsing logic engine 1465 in communication with a posting site via the operating system 1480; and

wherein;

the content parsing logic engine 1465 generates a content reference 1420 based on user parameters;

the content parsing logic engine 1465 uses the content reference 1420 to execute a first query on the posting site to retrieve markup language content 1425;

the content parsing logic engine 1465 parses the markup language content 1425 to generate map 1440 to map item identifiers 1450 with respective item data 1460;

the content parsing logic engine 1465 uses the content reference 1420 to execute a second query on the posting site to retrieve syndicated content 1430; and

the content parsing logic engine 1465 updates item data 1460 with syndicated content 1430 resulting in a modification of map 1440.

2. The digital processing apparatus 1000 of claim 1 further comprising:

a query engine 1470 in communication with a data store 1475; and

the content parsing logic engine 1465 in communication with the query engine 1470;

wherein the content parsing logic engine 1465 passes the modification of map 1440 to the query engine 1470; and

the query engine 1470 saves the modification of map 1440 in the data store 1475.

3. The apparatus 1000 of claim 1 wherein a user is notified of the modification of map 1440 via the passing of the modification of map 1440 to an output channel of the operating system 1480.

4. The apparatus 1000 of claim 1 wherein the user parameters are stored in a data store 1475 and wherein a query engine 1470 obtains the user parameters from the data store to pass the user parameters to the content parsing engine 1465.

5. The apparatus 1000 of claim 1, wherein the apparatus 1000 is at least one selected from the group consisting of cellular telephone, notebook computer, tablet computer, and laptop computer.

6. A digital processing apparatus 1000 implemented process for coordinating data from dissimilar formats comprising:

communicating between a content parsing logic engine 1465 and an operating system 1480;

communicating between the operating system 1480 and a posting site;

generating a content reference 1420, based on user parameters, via the content parsing logic engine 1465;

using the content reference 1420 to execute a first query on the posting site to retrieve markup language content 1425 via the content parsing logic engine 1465;

parsing the markup language content 1425 to generate map 1440 to map item identifiers 1450 with respective item data 1460 via the content parsing logic engine 1465;

using the content reference 1420 to execute a second query on the posting site to retrieve syndicated content 1430 via the content parsing logic engine 1465; and

updating item data 1460 with syndicated content 1430 resulting in a modification of map 1440 via the content parsing logic engine 1465.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

a query engine 1470 in communication with a data store 1475;

the content parsing logic engine 1465 in communication with the query engine 1470;

passing the modification of map 1440 to the query engine 1470 via the content parsing logic engine 1465; and

saving the modification of map 1440 in the data store 1475 via the query engine 1470.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein a user is notified of the modification of map 1440 via the passing of the modification of map 1440 via the content parsing logic engine to an output channel of the operating system 1480.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the user parameters are stored in a data store 1475 and wherein a query engine 1470 obtains the user parameters from the data store to pass the user parameters to the content parsing engine 1465.

10. The apparatus 1000 of claim 6 wherein the apparatus 1000 is at least one selected from the group consisting of cellular telephone, notebook computer, tablet computer, and laptop computer.

11. A non-transitory data processing apparatus readable storage medium storing a program for causing a data processing apparatus 1000 to execute a method according to claim 7.

12. A non-transitory data processing apparatus readable storage medium storing a program for causing a data processing apparatus 1000 to execute a method according to claim 8.

13. A non-transitory data processing apparatus readable storage medium storing a program for causing a data processing apparatus 1000 to execute a method according to claim 9.

14. A non-transitory data processing apparatus readable storage medium storing a program for causing a data processing apparatus 1000 to execute a method according to claim 10.