Software and method that enables selection of on-line content from one of a plurality of network content service providers in a single action

• US 9,111,604 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TMI Solutions LLC (Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Reisman, Richard R.
• Primary Examiner(s): PEYTON, TAMMARA R
• Application Number:
  US11/513,407
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073845A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,274 Days
• Field of Search: 705/6, 705/16, 705/26, 705/31, 705/32, 705/37, 709/203, 709/206, 709/215, 709/219, 709/221, 709/225, 709/229, 709/202, 709/227, 380/24, 380/25, 710/4, 710/14, 710/16, 710/33, 710/1, 710/19, 707/103.R, 703/26, 719/328, 719/315, 715/762, 715/255
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/123 Tax preparation or submission
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 8/18 Address timing or clocking circuits; Address control signal generation or management, e.g. for row address strobe [RAS] or column address strobe [CAS] signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a transport function to provide and receive identifications of content available over a network and to provide and receive user-selected content over the network.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for enabling a client computer system to retrieve selected content from a plurality of content providers, instructions comprising:

first computer program code for enabling the client computer system to select content to be retrieved from among a set of content available from the plurality of content providers and presented to the client computer system, wherein the first computer program code enables the client computer system to present the retrieved selected content with an interface that is customized to or by the respective content providers, wherein the first computer program code enables the client computer system to;

present an identification of the retrieved selected content;

receive selections associated with the retrieved selected content; and

present the retrieved selected content;

second computer program code for enabling the client computer system to request, in response to a single action per request, that the selected content be repeatedly and automatically retrieved, wherein the request involves exchange of one or more object manifests that reference the selected content between the client computer system and respective ones of the plurality of content providers, wherein the selected content comprises multiple separately selected content items available from at least two different respective content providers for providing each separately selected content item and retrieved from at least two different respective servers hosting each separately selected content item;

object manifest computer program code for enabling the client computer system to generate the one or more object manifests for the selections, each including one or more manifest list entries of the selected content and corresponding source addresses for the selected content; and

third computer program code enabling the client computer system to retrieve the selected content from the plurality of content providers as identified by the one or more manifest list entries and corresponding source addresses; and

fourth computer program product code for enabling the client computer system to persistently store at least one of retrieved selected content and an identification of available content from the plurality of content providers in a storage device.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the second computer program code enables the client computer system to repeatedly and automatically retrieve information regarding availability of the selected content according to a schedule.

3. The computer program product according to claim 2, wherein the second computer program code enables the client computer system to retrieve information relevant to setting the schedule from corresponding content providers.

4. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein the second computer program code enables the client computer system to retrieve the selected content based on subscription information stored at the client computer system.