Method and system for managing digital content including streaming media

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9407963-B2
Application number	US-18356708-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2008
Priority date	Feb 27, 2004
Publication date	Aug 2, 2016
Grant date	Aug 2, 2016

Abstract

The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines if the feed files are approved by applying a template to the feed files and also receives request files from the subscribers where each request file contains search criteria. The method provides one or more answer files in response to the request files where each answer file identifies feed files that meet the search criteria of a corresponding request file. The answer files are used to access or permit access to digital content on the web. In addition, a graphical user interface is described to manage, edit, promote and delete the feed files provided to the system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to generate a graphical user interface comprising:
a display window that visibly presents in a display of a computing device and permits, via the computing device, editing of descriptive information comprised within a feed file, the descriptive information corresponding to an event and the event's streaming content, wherein the descriptive information is separated into at least two groups of descriptive information;
a backpack window that stores, displays and facilitates user access to user-selected feed files, links to user-selected searches for the feed files that are stored in a global media database, and links to a type tag value indicating a level of the data among the at least two groups of descriptive information;
a plurality of tabs located in the display window for selecting among the at least two groups of descriptive information, each tab of the plurality displaying one of the at least two groups of the feed file's descriptive information; and
a save button located in the display window configured to store the feed file's descriptive information in the global media database.

2. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , further comprising instructions that generate on the graphical interface a button configured to store a link to the event identified in the feed file and associated descriptive information in the backpack window.

3. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , further comprising instructions that generate on the graphical interface a Hotlist window and a button configured to open the Hotlist window, the Hotlist window for adding the feed file to a specific location within the database.

4. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 3 , wherein the feed file is one of a plurality of feed files, the Hotlist window comprising:
the type tag value being used upon displaying at least one of the plurality of feed files.

5. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 4 further comprising instructions such that the Hotlist window is sectioned off according to content in the feed files based on similar type tag values.

6. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5 , wherein the sectioned Hotlist window visibly displays the content of the feed files.

7. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5 further comprising instructions such that the sectioned Hotlist window is sectioned off into three data windows.

8. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5 further comprising instructions such that the Hotlist window is sectioned off according to a category corresponding to the content of the feed file.

9. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 7 further comprising instructions such that the data windows comprise at least one pane allowing a user to manage an incoming feed file and the incoming feed file's descriptive information.

10. An apparatus comprising:
a processor;
and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium comprising processor-executable instructions for generating:
a display window configured to visibly present in a display of a computing device and to permit, via the computing device, editing of descriptive information comprised within a feed file, the descriptive information corresponding to an event and the event's streaming content, wherein the descriptive information is separated into at least two groups of descriptive information;
a backpack window that stores, displays and facilitates user access to user-selected feed files, links to user-selected searches for the feed files that are stored in a global media database, and links to a type tag value indicating a level of the data among the at least two groups of descriptive information;
a plurality of tabs located in the display window for selecting among the at least two groups of descriptive information, each tab of the plurality displaying one of the at least two groups of the feed file's descriptive information; and
a save button located in the display window configured to store the feed file's descriptive information in the global media database.

Assignees

• Deshan Jay Brent
• Gray Chad Ric
• Do Huong Thi
• Yahoo Inc

Inventors

• Deshan Jay Brent
• Gray Chad Ric
• Do Huong Thi

Classifications

• G06F16/7867

  using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings · CPC title

• G11B27/34 Primary

  Indicating arrangements  {(indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4788

  communicating with other users, e.g. chatting {(arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)} · CPC title

• G06F17/3082

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/472 Primary

  End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content {(end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612)} · CPC title