US 8,799,348 B2Granted

Podcast organization and usage at a computing device

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorsAnne Jones, Mike Wiese, David Lawrence Neumann

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Abstract

Improved techniques that facilitate the use of podcasts are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, organizing, searching, browsing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, tags are embedded into syndication feeds (e.g., RSS feeds) that may be made available for distribution by an online media store to facilitate the management of podcasts. In accordance with one embodiment, an explicit tag may be embedded at the feed and/or episode level to indicate that the feed and/or episode includes explicit content. In accordance with another embodiment, a duration tag may be embedded at the episode level to indicate an estimated duration associated with the episode. Upon downloading the episode, the duration may be replaced by the actual duration of the episode. In accordance with yet another embodiment, a new feed-URL tag may be embedded in a syndication feed to identify a new URL at which the feed is to be accessed.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A method of processing a podcast, comprising:

maintaining, by a client device, a multi-episode podcast feed with an online media store upon receiving a new podcast episode in the multi-episode podcast feed, the new podcast episode having podcast metadata content and podcast media content;
parsing, by the client device, the podcast metadata content of the new podcast episode to identify at least one new-feed-URL tag identifying a new location of the multi-episode podcast feed that is external to the online media store;
obtaining the new-feed-URL tag from the podcast metadata content;
determining, by the client device, whether a user of the client device has a subscription for automatically downloading episodes of the multi-episode podcast feed;
tagging, by the client device, additional podcast episodes downloaded by the user with the obtained new-feed-URL tag upon determining that the user is not subscribed to the multi-episode podcast feed;
and
tagging, by the client device, all previously existing podcasts in the multi-episode podcast feed and all new podcast episodes in the multi-episode podcast feed with the obtained new-feed-URL tag upon determining that the user is subscribed to the multi-episode podcast feed, wherein tagging includes substituting the new URL for an old URL previously associated with the podcast or episodes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/781,715Filed 28 Feb 2013 · division
Priority: 21 Jun 2006
Published: US 2013/0238640 A112 Sep 2013
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 65/60
Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication: network streaming of media packets
G06F 16/22
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/27
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database…
G06F 16/907
Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from…

Family

Application60/805,449Us provisional application · filed 21 Jun 2006
Application11/476,414Parent of this division · filed 27 Jun 2006
US 2013/0238640 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Sep 2013
US 8,412,763 B2Parent of this division
US 2007/0299873 A1Published application
US 8,799,348 B2This patent

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