RSS Feed Transfer System with Selective URL Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication systems for transferring feed location information between devices, such as PCs and non-PC communication apparatuses, lack user selectivity and efficiency, often resulting in undesired information being transferred and limitations on the number of registerable URLs, which can lead to desired URLs being omitted.
Innovation Solution
A communication system with a processing apparatus and device management unit that allows users to selectively transfer feed location information, using a display and input device to manage and register RSS site information, enabling the extraction and transfer of desired URLs while avoiding the limitations of OPML file transfers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If OPML file transfer method is used to transfer feed location information collectively, then transfer operation is simplified, but user cannot select specific information to be transferred and undesired URLs are transferred along with desired ones
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the feed location information transfer process into two distinct phases: first, collective import of all URLs from OPML file to temporary storage, and second, selective registration of desired URLs to the feed reader. This segmentation allows users to review and select specific URLs after import but before final registration, thereby maintaining ease of operation while enabling user selectivity.
2Ease of operation
If all feed location information is transferred collectively via OPML file, then transfer process is simplified, but URLs exceeding maximum registerable number are automatically omitted requiring retransfer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary import of all feed location information from the OPML file into temporary storage before the user specifies the feed reader for registration. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare all available URLs in advance, and when registration occurs, the system can intelligently select URLs that fit within the maximum registerable number limit, preventing automatic omission and ensuring reliable registration of desired URLs.
3Quantity of substance
If feed reader on communication apparatus has limited maximum number of registerable entries, then device memory constraints are satisfied, but desired URLs cannot be registered when even undesired URLs occupy space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a temporary storage area as an intermediary between the OPML file import and the feed reader registration. This intermediary allows all URLs to be imported first without exceeding the feed reader's capacity constraints, then enables selective registration of only desired URLs to the feed reader. This resolves the conflict between maintaining device memory constraints and providing URL registration flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A communication system includes an information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus. The information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire a file that indicates feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information. The controller controls the display to display at least one of the feed location information described in the file and the title described in the file, and to display at least one of the feed location information registered in a device management unit and the title registered in the device management unit. Moreover the controller registers, into the device management unit, feed location information or feed location information corresponding to a title displayed on the first portion of the display, which is specified by the user.