System and method for augmenting digital media with custom content
View Patent ↗A system and method for enhancing the number of page views of a web site or other digitally distributed interactive medium. A custom content hosting service allows a publisher to augment the contents of its own site with additional pages. The custom content hosting service provides content based on a topic supplied by the publisher, extracting data from a database of generic content. Generic content may include, for example, news feeds and news archives; news and archive photographs; links to blogs and other sites; etc. The publisher may customize the look and feel of the hosted pages to allow seamless integration into its own site.
1. A computer-implemented method for augmenting a site with additional pages, executed on at least one processor, method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a first computer, a display specification, wherein the display specification provides visual effect modifications to a page;
generating, at a second computer, a plurality of pages based on the display specification;
receiving, at the second computer, a query from a module hosted on the site;
generating, at the second computer, a list of pages selected from the plurality of pages based on the query, the list of gages including data responsive to the query; and
transmitting, from the second computer, the list of pages to the module.
2. The computer-implemented method for augmenting a site with additional pages according to claim 1 , further including:
hosting, at the second computer, the plurality of pages.
3. A computer-implemented method for augmenting a site with additional pages, executed on at least one processor, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a first computer, a display specification;
generating, at a second computer, a plurality of pages based on the display specification;
receiving, at the second computer, a query from a module hosted on the site;
generating, at the second computer, a list of pages selected from the plurality of pages based on the query; and
transmitting, from the second computer, the list of pages to the module, wherein the query includes a filtering specification, and the list of pages is generated based on the filtering specification.
4. A computer-implemented method for augmenting a site with additional pages, executed on at least one processor, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a first computer, a display specification;
generating, at a second computer, a plurality of pages based on the display specification;
receiving, at the second computer, a query from a module hosted on the site, wherein the query includes an identifier of a page which includes the module;
acquiring, at the second computer, content from the pages and analyzing at least part of the content to obtain a filtering specification;
generating, at the second computer, a list of pages selected from the plurality of pages based on the queries, wherein the list of pages is generated based on the filtering specification; and
transmitting, from the second computer, the list of pages to the module.
5. A computer-implemented system executed on at least one processor for augmenting a site with additional pages, the system comprising:
a content database on a first computer for storing generic content;
a filtering module on the first computer in communication with the content database, the filtering module generating custom content from the generic content based on a filtering specification; and
an interface module on the first computer in communication with the filtering module, the interface module receiving the content specification and a display specification from the site, the site hosted on a second computer, and generating, on the
first computer, a custom page based on the custom page content and the display specification; and
wherein the display specification provides visual effect modifications to a page.