Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting
View Patent ↗Improved podcasts and techniques that facilitate their use are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to creating, publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, a client application can subscribe to podcasts and then automatically monitor the podcasts for updates to be downloaded. In the event that user interest in a podcast becomes inadequate, downloading of further updates can be restricted. According to another aspect, a podcast can be subscribed to through use of a portable subscription file. According to still another aspect, podcast feeds can be enhanced to include segment elements and other metadata.
1. A method performed by one or more computers, the method comprising:
transmitting data that causes a first computing device to provide a user interface that invokes a text entry portion to receive a registration of a podcast;
receiving, at a second computing device, an identifier of a source of the podcast;
verifying the identifier; and
in response to a request for the podcast, causing transmission of the podcast to the second computing device.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein verifying the identifier comprises causing a verification email message to be sent to an email address associated with the source of the podcast and receiving a confirmation email in response to the verification email message.
3. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast via the user interface.
4. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast by invocation of one or more screen item selections.
5. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast by invocation of one or more screen item selections; and
causing transmission of content of the subscribed podcast to the first computing device.
6. The method of claim 1 , comprising
receiving an indication a podcast is marked as including explicit content; and
storing an association of explicit content for the podcast marked as including explicit content.
7. The method of claim 1 , comprising
causing the first computing device to display an indication of whether the podcast is downloaded.
8. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
transmitting to the first computing device instructions to cause display podcasts titles arranged according to an order, the order selected from: category, length, date published.
9. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, that when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
transmitting data that causes a first computing device to provide a user interface that invokes a text entry portion to receive a registration of a podcast;
receiving, at a second computing device, an identifier of a source of the podcast;
verifying the identifier; and
in response to a request for the podcast, causing transmission of the podcast to the second computing device.
10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein verifying the identifier comprising causing a verification email message to be sent to an email address associated with the source of the podcast and receiving a confirmation email in response to the verification email message.
11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast via the user interface.
12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast by invocation of one or more screen item selections.
13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast by invocation of one or more screen item selections; and
causing transmission of content of the subscribed podcast to the first computing device.
14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations comprising
receiving an indication a podcast is marked as including explicit content; and
storing an association of explicit content for the podcast marked as including explicit content.
15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations comprising
causing the first computing device to display an indication of whether the podcast is downloaded.
16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the operations comprising:
transmitting to the first computing device instructions to cause display podcasts titles arranged according to an order, the order selected from: category, length, date published.
17. A system comprising:
at least one memory;
one or more processors;
at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
transmitting data that causes a first computing device to provide a user interface that invokes a text entry portion to receive a registration of a podcast;
receiving, at a second computing device, an identifier of a source of the podcast;
verifying the identifier; and
in response to a request for the podcast, causing transmission of the podcast to the second computing device.
18. The system of claim 17 , wherein verifying the identifier comprising causing a verification email message to be sent to an email address associated with the source of the podcast and receiving a confirmation email in response to the verification email message.
19. The system of claim 17 , the operations comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast via the user interface.
20. The system of claim 17 , the operations comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast by invocation of one or more screen item selections.
21. The system of claim 17 , the operations comprising:
providing an option to subscribe to a podcast by invocation of one or more screen item selections; and
causing transmission of content of the subscribed podcast to the first computing device.
22. The system of claim 17 , the operations comprising
receiving an indication a podcast is marked as including explicit content; and
storing an association of explicit content for the podcast marked as including explicit content.
23. The system of claim 17 , the operations comprising
causing the first computing device to display an indication of whether the podcast is downloaded.
24. The system of claim 17 , the operations comprising:
transmitting to the first computing device instructions to cause display podcasts titles arranged according to an order, the order selected from: category, length, date published.