Granted Patent B2

US 12,554,460 · App. 18/233,220 · Granted Feb 17, 2026

Inventor: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri (Milpitas, CA)

Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC

G06F3/165G10L13/04G10L13/08H04L65/612H04L67/12

Abstract

Claims (45)

1 . A method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of text-based articles and respective publication dates for each of the plurality of text-based articles;

causing the plurality of text-based articles to be converted into a corresponding plurality of audio files obtained from one or more newsfeed servers;

generating a playlist with references to a subset of the plurality of audio files, wherein the playlist is ordered chronologically or reverse-chronologically based on the respective publication dates;

reordering the playlist based on: (i) insertion of a second audio file obtained from a source different from the one or more newsfeed servers into the playlist and (ii) a rule to override the chronological or reverse-chronological ordering; and

transmitting, to a client device, the reordered playlist.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a request to stream an audio file of the playlist to the client device; and

transmitting the audio file to the client device.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a request to stream the playlist to the client device; and

transmitting one or more of the audio files of the playlist to the client device.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein representations of the text-based articles appeared in one or more newsfeeds.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more newsfeeds are based on a really simple syndication (RSS) format.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the plurality of text-based articles and the respective publication dates for each of the text-based articles comprises obtaining references to the plurality of text-based articles from the client device.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the plurality of text-based articles and the respective publication dates for each of the text-based articles further comprises obtaining the plurality of text-based articles and the respective publication dates from one or more newsfeed servers.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the respective publication dates further comprise respective publication times of the plurality of text-based articles.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the playlist comprises a sequence of the references to the subset of the audio files.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the text-based articles comprise a title and a body, wherein causing the text-based articles to be converted into the corresponding plurality of audio files comprises:

causing, for each of the text-based articles, its title and body to be converted into audio and included in the corresponding plurality of audio files.

11 . A method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of text-based articles and respective publication dates for each of the text-based articles;

causing the plurality of text-based articles to be converted into a corresponding plurality of audio files obtained from one or more newsfeed servers;

generating a sequence of references to a subset of the audio files, wherein the sequence of references is ordered chronologically or reverse-chronologically based on the respective publication dates;

reordering the sequence of references based on: (i) insertion of a second audio file obtained from a source different from the one or more newsfeed servers into the sequence of references and (ii) a rule to override the chronological or reverse-chronological ordering; and

transmitting, to a client device, the reordered sequence of references.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving a request to stream an audio file referenced by the sequence of references to the client device; and

transmitting the audio file to the client device.

13 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving a request to stream audio based on the sequence of references to the client device; and

transmitting one or more of the audio files of the sequence of references to the client device.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein representations of the text-based articles appeared in one or more newsfeeds.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the one or more newsfeeds are based on a really simple syndication (RSS) format.

16 . The method of claim 11 , wherein obtaining the plurality of text-based articles and the respective publication dates for each of the text-based articles comprises obtaining references to the plurality of text-based articles from the client device.

17 . The method of claim 11 , wherein obtaining the plurality of text-based articles and the respective publication dates for each of the text-based articles further comprises obtaining the plurality of text-based articles and the respective publication dates from one or more newsfeed servers.

18 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the respective publication dates further comprise respective publication times of the plurality of text-based articles.

19 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the text-based articles comprise a title and a body, wherein causing the text-based articles to be converted into the corresponding plurality of audio files comprises:

causing, for each of the text-based articles, its title and body to be converted into audio and included in the corresponding plurality of audio files.

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

obtaining a plurality of text-based articles and respective publication dates for each of the text-based articles;

causing the plurality of text-based articles to be converted into a corresponding plurality of audio files obtained from one or more newsfeed servers;

generating a sequence of references to a subset of the plurality of audio files, wherein the sequence of references is ordered chronologically or reverse-chronologically based on the respective publication dates;

reordering the sequence of references based on: (i) insertion of a second audio file obtained from a source different from the one or more newsfeed servers into the sequence of references and (ii) a rule to override the chronological or reverse-chronological ordering; and

transmitting, to a client device, the reordered sequence of references.

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