Method and system for user receipt of digital content
A method for disseminating digital, including executing code referenced in a markup language page to request a browser displayable interface configuration from a server, receiving from the server a definition of the interface including resource tags, and interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content. A markup language page for disseminating digital content, the page having division tags defining a plurality of containers for the digital content and locations in the page for playing the content, and having an a script tag referencing a web address from which a player definition can be retrieved.
1 . A method for disseminating digital content, comprising:
executing code referenced in a markup language page to request a browser displayable interface configuration from a server;
receiving from the server a definition of the interface including resource tags; and
interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the interface is a player displayed in the browser for playing the digital content.
3 . The method of claim 1 , comprising providing the digital content in a plurality of containers defined by code in the markup language page.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the code referenced in the markup language page includes a plurality of division or section elements defining containers and locations for the containers in the markup language page.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the code referenced in the markup language page includes script referencing a web address from which the interface definition can be retrieved.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the code referenced in the markup language page uniquely defines an interface for one of a plurality of content distributors.
7 . The method of claim 1 , comprising receiving from the server parsing logic code for parsing the digital content.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the digital content includes any object that a mark-up language supports.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the mark-up language comprises hypertext markup language.
10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the digital content includes audio, video, or audio-visual content.
11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises streaming content.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises progressive-download content.
13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the server is one of a plurality of geographically dispersed servers capable of providing the server definition and the content.
14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the server is the server most geographically local to a user computer on which the code is executed from among the plurality of geographically dispersed servers.
15 . A method for disseminating digital content, comprising:
on a computer on which content is to be played, executing script code in a markup language page referencing a web address from which the player definition can be retrieved;
receiving from a server at the web address, a definition of the player including resource tags for the digital content;
interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content; and
providing the digital content in containers defined by division tags in the markup language page.
16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the script code uniquely defines a player for one of a plurality of content distributors.
17 . A method for disseminating digital content, comprising:
on a computer on which content is to be played, executing script code in a markup language page referencing a web address from which the player definition can be retrieved;
requesting a definition of the player at the web address from an edge server most geographically local to the computer on which the code is executed from among a plurality of geographically dispersed servers;
receiving the definition of the player including resource tags for the digital content;
interpreting the resource tags to request the digital content from the server; and
providing the digital content in containers defined by division tags in the markup language page.
18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the script code uniquely defines a player for one of a plurality of content distributors.
19 . The method of claim 17 , comprising receiving from the server parsing logic code for parsing the digital content.
20 . A markup language page for disseminating digital content, comprising:
division tags defining a plurality of containers for the digital content and locations in the page for playing the content; and
a script tag referencing a web address from which a player definition can be retrieved.