94 results about "Web feed" patented technology

Systems and methods for identifying trends in web feeds collected from various content servers are disclosed. One embodiment includes, selecting a candidate phrase indicative of potential trends in the web feeds, assigning the candidate phrase to trend analysis agents, analyzing the candidate phrase, by each of the one or more trend analysis agents, respectively using the configured type of trending parameter, and / or determining, by each of the trend analysis agents, whether the candidate phrase meets an associated threshold to qualify as a potential trended phrase.

A system and a method for alerting a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) viewer as to content that meets a predefined criteria of the viewer embedded within a real-time internet web feed and allowing the viewer to elect to view and / or record detected content that meets such criteria while viewing other content.

To provide an enhanced customer service experience, various combinations of web searches, site-specific filtering tools and syndicated feed readers can be used to find relevant posts on the internet. Internal email, IM, phone, and the like can cooperate with an appropriately equipped expert-finding solution to assist with help in locating the experts qualified to respond to the post(s). The leveraging of RSS / Atom feeds or similar technology, content analysis, and contact center work distribution algorithms are leveraged to monitor the feeds from multiple sites and automatically distribute messages to appropriately skilled contact center agents. Each message discovered is analyzed to determine which contact center queue it is to be routed to, and then the contact center assigns it to an appropriate agent. This eliminates or significantly reduces the amount of manual searching and qualification of posts.

A method and system for creating a database of categorized web feeds for facilitating web feed organization is disclosed. One exemplary method includes ascertaining a web feed identifier and searching a categorized collection of websites to determine a hierarchical folder path for the web feed identifier. For example, the Open Directory Project may be searched to determine an appropriate hierarchical folder path for the web feed identifier. The web feed identifier is placed in a corresponding hierarchical folder path within the database of categorized web feeds. The database of categorized web feeds can then be used as a tool for organizing web feeds on a client computer.

A powered dispenser for dispensing individual sheet segments from a continuous roll of sheet material provided with spaced tear lines comprises a powered feed mechanism, a releasable, powered drive mechanism, a powered transfer mechanism, a pair of web sensing sensors, a capacitive sensing system providing automatic sensitivity adjustment, and control circuitry. A dual power supply system provides a mechanical lock-out functionality, and the control system is protected from electrostatic build-up on the surface of the feed roller. The web sensor, and an antenna plate of the capacitive sensing system, are provided on respective printed circuit boards mounted in overlying relation. Utilizing signals received from the pair of web sensors and the capacitive sensing system, the control circuitry senses the presence of a user to activate the powered drive mechanism, and prevents further dispensing of the sheet material until a previously dispensed segment is separated from the roll. The web sensors detection of a leading edge of the sheet material initiates a predetermined interval of sheet material advancement providing a proper placement of successive tear lines. Various approaches may be utilized to accommodate inadvertent sheet “tabbing” scenarios. The web sensors, together with the control circuitry, are also used to detect the depletion, or absence, of a working roll of sheet material, whereupon the control circuitry controls the powered transfer mechanism to automatically transfer the web feed supply from a depleted working roll to a reserve roll. The powered transfer mechanism may include a motor driven transfer bar, or provide motor driven release of a spring biased transfer bar. Another arrangement allows for ready release of a roll core, and drop of the same into an open dispenser cover for removal.

Content providers or media outlets may provide opportunities to place insertion or replacement material, for example, advertisements, into alternate streams or feeds of programming. A clearinghouse of such for various content providers may be automatically maintained and updated. Entities with insertion or replacement material may reserve, bid on or automatically place insertion or replacement material. An insertion system component may automatically insert material in an alternative feed of programming, for example, automatically replacing locally relevant advertisement in a broadcast with more general or even more specific advertisements in a Web feed of the programming. Organization of the insertions or replacement may be automatically determined based on various criteria.

A system for generation of personalized Web feed views in accordance with pre-defined profile parameters, is presented. The system including a user definition interface for receiving at least one user parameter and sending the parameter to a content provider and a feed view personalization unit operable to receive the user parameter and customize feed content in accordance with the at least one user parameter for displaying to the user.

A shared feed reader for multiple users and a method for sharing feed reading are provided which provide group collaboration features. The shared feed reader includes a server including a processor hosting the shared feed reader for remote access by multiple users, and a user interface for each of the multiple users including an aggregator of web feeds subscribed to by the user. The shared feed reader includes: a mechanism for defining a group of users, wherein web feeds subscribed to by users in the group are exposed to the other users in the group; and a mechanism for sharing a read status of a web feed post across the group, wherein the read status indicates which users have read the post. The shared feed reader may also include a mechanism for receiving a meta-feed of meta-posts, wherein meta-feeds and meta-posts relate to activities of users in the group on shared feeds and posts.

A method and system for securely handling privileged content in web syndication applications operating within a computer network and utilizing a web aggregator operating over a data network linked to a computer network and one or more web servers capable of receiving web feed requests and providing corresponding web feeds, wherein at least some of said web feeds comprise an identifier referencing privileged content, said identifier is provided in response to web feed requests relating to said privileged content, and wherein a proxy server located within said computer network is utilized for handling web feeds requests and for replacing the identifiers in the web feeds with corresponding privileged content, whenever such identifiers are received in response to web feed requests issued by authorized users within the computer network.

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for bookmarking and tagging content items such as media files with user-defined tag information and system-defined tag information based on file types. Utilizing tag information, a user of a bookmarking and tagging service provider can easily search for and retrieve links to media files having specific tag information, even if the media files are located at geographically disparate sites. A user may also retrieve the media files using web feeds.

A feed mechanism for feeding a web of print media past a printhead is provided. The feed mechanism comprises a supply spool, a take-up spool, a take-up motor operatively connected to the take-up spool, a take-up control system for controlling the torque of the take-up motor, a drive roller system positioned between the supply spool and the take-up spool and a drive motor operatively connected to the drive roller system. In use, a web fed from the drive roller system to the take-up spool is maintained under substantially constant tension by regulating the torque of the take-up motor using the take-up control system. A wide format printer comprising the feed mechanism is also provided.

Web feed display templates are created and used to reduce the time and cost to conform web feeds to device constraints and content provider display guidelines. A web feed display template is customized for a particular type of device and a particular web feed. The display template is created by administrative input of values for predefined display parameters. The values are selected to conform the web feed to the constraints of the device and content provider display guidelines for the web feed. When a user of the device subscribes to the web feed, the display template is used to dynamically create web pages containing web feed items that conform to the constraints of the device and the content provider display guidelines.

A method and system produces a presentation message for a mobile device. The method involves retrieving syndicated content from a content source; and generating from the syndicated content the presentation message for sequentially presenting on the mobile device one or more content items of the syndicated content. The syndicated content may be a RSS or ATOM web feed. The method may involve receiving a user selection of a web feed and an invocation parameter; determining supported media types, display dimensions, maximum presentation message size and presentation parameters; retrieving the syndicated content; selecting the one or more content items; converting the one or more content items to one or more presentation objects; assembling the presentation objects into the presentation message; and delivering the presentation message to the mobile device such that viewing the presentation message causes the presentation objects to be sequentially displayed on the mobile device.

A high speed input system for an inserter machine. The system controlling a guillotine cutter, a cutter transport, and an upstream web handler transport to increase throughput for mail production. The controller is programmed to control the high speed input module in accordance with a repeating cycle. The cycle time is determined as an amount of time between a first web feed request and an earliest possible time that a subsequent second web feed request can be acted upon. A cutter transport motion control profile initiates feeding of a document length of web after receiving the first feed request. The cutter motion control profile causes the cutter blade to begin descending when the cutter transport has moved the web a trigger distance, calculated such that the cutter blade will first make contact with the web immediately when the web has been halted by the cutter transport motion profile. A web handler transport profile moves the web the document length at velocities and accelerations less than the velocities and accelerations of the cutter transport. At the end of the cycle, the web handler transport causes the web to be transported at a nominal velocity selected to maintain an appropriate amount of the web loop in the web handler. Within the web handler a control loop expands and contracts as the downstream cutter transport stops and starts as the cutter blade cuts the web in each cycle.

A method (and corresponding system and computer program product) that prompts users for web feed subscription based on web browsing activities of the users is disclosed. The method monitors web browsing activities of a user related to a web page, and determines that the web page supports web feeds. Responsive to the user repeatedly visited the web page, the method determines whether the monitored web browsing activities related to the web page meets predetermined criteria. If so, the method prompts the user with options to subscribe to the web feed. If the user responds positively to the prompt, the method subscribes to the web feed.

A system and method for determining popularity of a video based in part on requests for the video received from a referrer, grouping videos whose popularity based on requests from referrers exceeds a threshold and displaying those videos in a channel or providing them in a web feed.

An arrangement and a data transmission method are disclosed. The amount of traffic originated by the subscriptions of syndicated web feeds by terminals using point-to-point connections is monitored, the terminals being capable of broadcast reception. The cost of delivering the amount of traffic is compared to a threshold value. If the cost exceeds the threshold value the web feed is redirected to a broadcast network which starts transmitting the feed. A message is sent to the terminals capable of broadcast reception and subscribing to the feed, the message indicating a command to start receiving the feed from the broadcast network.

A web feed notification system and method for multi-function peripheral devices (MFPS) is disclosed. A notification condition is detected in a multi-function peripheral having a communications interface. A notification web feed indicative of the notification condition is assembled. Subscribed client devices detect the updated web feed and download the web feed accordingly. In certain embodiments, web feed subscriptions may be restricted to certain types of clients based on their permission roles.

Disclosed is a mechanism for notifying potential responders of a condition of a system. Status information is received in response to a condition in a system. The condition is of the type requiring notification of a potential responder—for instance, an alarm in a building energy management system. A status web feed is prepared in accordance with a web feed protocol. The status web feed includes content related to the status information. The status web feed is distributed to potential responders that subscribe to the status web feed. The web feed protocol may be for example RSS or ATOM.

A rich set of data can be acquired by suitable technology, integrated with RSS reader implementations, to better understand the web feed consuming audience. In turn, that data can be applied to help publishers better understand their readership. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to capturing user data, generate predictions on how an article would be received by the readership (preferably before it is published), and automatically create recommendations for use by an author or web publisher on how the article might be edited or “fine tuned” to achieve greater impact. This conserves precious time for publishers by giving predictions and thus helps generate more relevant content for the readership. In one embodiment, we build a profile for each author / publisher over her entire set of published articles. So when a new article is written, it is matched against this author profile and recommendations are made. The rollups are done on all articles published by a single author.

A system for providing targeted Web feed subscription suggestions calculated based on IP (“Internet Protocol”) addresses. Web feeds are automatically suggested to users based on the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the user's computer system and previous feed subscriptions made from other computer systems having similar IP addresses. Feed suggestions may be weighted based on differing levels of IP address similarity, in order to reflect differing levels of geographic proximity between users. Users may be permitted to expressly indicate which of their feed subscriptions are to be made public through the feed reader user interface when they make subscriptions. In response to such user indications, the disclosed system passes the IP address of the user's computer system to the centralized server system together with a name or other identifier of the feed that was subscribed to.

A method, computer program product, and electronic device for transferring updated digital content to a client device includes determining that the updated content is available from a web feed. The updated content is obtained from the web feed and stored within a datastore. An indication is provided to the client device, via a network, concerning the availability of the updated content within the datastore. The updated content is transmitted, via the network, from the datastore to the client device.

An apparatus is disclosed for reducing feed rate variations when unwinding a web material. The apparatus includes a rotational position and speed determining device for determining the rotational position and speed of the parent roll, a drive system for imparting rotational movement to the parent roll, a device for measuring the radius of the parent roll, and a logic device. The logic device generates an ideal speed reference signal and utilizes calculated and measured data to establish a corrected speed reference signal to make adjustments in the driving speed based upon the corrected speed reference signal to maintain a relatively constant feed rate. By dividing the parent roll into 1, 2, . . . n sectors, the data can be refined to a relatively high degree taking into account high speed data processing capabilities as well as operating system response times to make appropriate driving speed adjustments.

User input is received to create a bookmark in a web browser for a non-feed Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A web feed associated with the non-feed URL is determined. A subscription to the web feed is automatically created. An indication of new web content is received from the web feed. The bookmark for the non-feed URL is decorated to provide a visual indication of the new web content.

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for bookmarking and tagging content items such as media files with user-defined tag information and system-defined tag information based on file types. Utilizing tag information, a user of a bookmarking and tagging service provider can easily search for and retrieve links to media files having specific tag information, even if the media files are located at geographically disparate sites. A user may also retrieve the media files using web feeds.