NEWS ARCHITECTURE FOR iTV
AssigneeTVWorks, LLC
InventorsEdward A. Miner, Maikhanh T. Nguyen, Mark O. Knowles, Alison N. Crakes-Franzen
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Abstract
A system and method for acquiring media content is disclosed. A capture platform may allow users to create customized templates for the automatic capture of web-based media, such as news. Captured content may be normalized for optimized access by a plurality of different device platforms, and may also be customized for individual users. One or more chained transformer plug-ins may be used to provide the customization.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- storing, by a computer, a target platform specific web content harvest capture template comprising one or more markup language files defining rules, logic and content extraction parameters for media content, and identifying content display layouts or mappings for the target platform;
- using the capture template to extract media content from one or more web-based sources;
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- providing the media content to a targeted platform device.
A computer-readable medium, storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the following to occur:
- storing, by a computer, a target platform specific web content harvest capture template comprising one or more markup language files defining rules, logic and content extraction parameters for media content, and identifying content display layouts or mappings for the target platform;
- using the capture template to extract media content from one or more web-based sources;
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- providing the media content to a targeted platform device.
A system, comprising:
- a content harvest and conversion platform, configured to allow authors to create capture templates including one or more markup language files defining rules, logic and content extraction parameters for harvesting media content from disparate, web-based sources, the harvest and conversion platform being further configured to use the capture templates to extract media content from the web-based sources;
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- a syndication server configured to generate a normalized data stream from the extracted media content, and to provide the normalized stream for display on one or more different platforms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.