37 results about "News service" patented technology

The invention facilitates and enhances review of a body of information (that can be represented by a set of audio data, video data, text data or some combination of the three), enabling the body of information to be quickly reviewed to obtain an overview of the content of the body of information and allowing flexibility in the manner in which the body of information is reviewed. In a particular application of the invention, the content of audiovisual news programs is acquired from a first set of one or more information sources (e.g., television news programs) and text news stories are acquired from a second set of one or more information sources (e.g., on-line news services or news wire services). In such a particular application, the invention can enable the user to access the news stories of audiovisual news programs in a random manner so that the user can move quickly among news stories or news programs. The invention can also enable the user to quickly locate news stories pertaining to a particular subject. Additionally, when the user is observing a particular news story in a news program, the invention can identify and display related news stories. The invention can also enable the user to control the display of the news programs by, for example, speeding up the display, causing a summary of one or more news stories to be displayed, or pausing the display of the news stories. Additionally, the invention can indicate to the user which news story is currently being viewed, as well as which news stories have previously been viewed.

A system and method for providing a specialized learning curriculum to users over a computer network. At least one server computer associated with a education content provider hosts a learning center web site that solicits and receives personal information from users relating to the users' interest preferences and demographic information. Using this information, the server computer generates a specialized learning curriculum based upon each user's selected interests and other information. The curriculum may include articles, on-line courses, on-line workshops, interactive games and user activities, and interactive calculation tools provided by both the education content provider and third party content providers. Upon curriculum creation, the user may select content items for subsequent display and evaluation. The system also provides a variety of additional features such as an internal message service, a reminder service, a news service, and a notes service.

The invention facilitates and enhances review of a body of information (that can be represented by a set of audio data, video data, text data or some combination of the three), enabling the body of information to be quickly reviewed to obtain an overview of the content of the body of information and allowing flexibility in the manner in which the body of information is reviewed. In a particular application of the invention, the content of audiovisual news programs is acquired from a first set of one or more information sources (e.g., television news programs) and text news stories are acquired from a second set of one or more information sources (e.g., online news services or news wire services). In such a particular application, the invention can enable the user to access the news stories of audiovisual news programs in a random manner so that the user can move quickly among news stories or news programs. The invention can also enable the user to quickly locate news stories pertaining to a particular subject. Additionally, when the user is observing a particular news story in a news program, the invention can identify and display related news stories. The invention can also enable the user to control the display of the news programs by, for example, speeding up the display, causing a summary of one or more news stories to be displayed, or pausing the display of the news stories. Additionally, the invention can indicate to the user which news story is currently being viewed, as well as which news stories have previously been viewed.

Embodiments of the invention disclose an audio news processing method comprising the steps of segmenting a news text to be processed to get at least one news text segment to be processed, converting the news text segments to be processed into voice to get audio news of each segment, synthesizing the audio news of the segments to get an audio news, and pushing the audio news to a terminal. The embodiments of the invention further disclose a news server and a system. The news server can segment a news text to be processed automatically and quickly, acquire an audio news and push the audio news to a terminal. The timeliness of audio news is improved.

A system provides a multi-sided media viewer capable of displaying media assets from an electronic archival news and content database. Each side of the media player contains different information regarding the media asset. A primary side of the media asset may display a media asset related to an educational program, such as a course curriculum or the like. The secondary sides of the media viewer may contain additional information regarding that media asset, including personalized information generated by a system user as well as automatically populated information, such as information collected from other external news services or content providers. The system may further provide an educational game in which users are encouraged to find and draw connections between media assets to create an interconnection of related news items. The multi-sided media viewer may be a two-sided cue card, or a multidimensional news or content element having any number of sides depending on the additional information to be displayed with the media asset.

The invention discloses a method for realizing a message service of an internet protocol television (IPTV) and a system thereof. An IPTV message system receives a message from an IPTV system and / or an external network element system. The received message is transmitted to a set top box which corresponds to user information or a receiving terminal which is bound with a set top box user according to the user information and whether the set top box is started. If the set top box is not started, the set top box user is further determined whether there are other terminal binding services. If there are not other terminal binding services, an off line mail is sent to the set top box user. If there are other terminal binding services, the message is sent to the other binding terminal of the set top box user. The message made by the system is displayed on the other terminal. By using the method and the system, the services and functions of message sources, the receiving terminal and other aspects are expanded. The service of the IPTV system can be enriched.

Provided is an apparatus and method for providing a news service using an MBS in a BWA system. In a method for providing a news service from a newsgroup server in a wireless access system, if a user terminal has joined at least one newsgroup, a message for notifying an MBSC of a newsgroup subscription of the user terminal, in order to allocate a newsgroup dedicated MCID to the user terminal. News contents are received from a news provider corresponding to the at least one newsgroup. The received news contents are created into one packet and the resulting news packet is transmitted to the MBSC in real time or at a predetermined period of time.

An on-line continuing education course is conducted by a web server. A user takes the on-line course and may stop at any point during the course. The server keeps an account of the user's journey through the course by saving the exact position where the user left. Depending upon the course of instruction, the user could be credited for a partially completed course with fractional credits if so stated in the course description. Thus, the user may resume the course at any subsequent time and the server will take the user to the exact point where he left off. The server also keeps a record of the number of correct answers the user may have scored, and, thus, any credit he may have already earned in a prior session of the same course. Informational "bites" and full courses can be easily presented in a news format, similar to on line news services, thereby making continuing education necessary to maintain a certified professional status as easy to read and use as a conventional newspaper.

A mobile terminal simultaneously receives an interactive service, such as a betting service, and a web-based news service operating in conjunction with the interactive service across a wireless connection. Both services are simultaneously displayed in different windows on the same display of the mobile terminal. The user's selections, navigation of pages and other input in the interactive service are monitored and used to select related news items for a scrolling news frame.

The invention discloses a dynamic load balancing method of a release / subscription system. The system comprises a peer-to-peer overlay network consisting of a plurality of servers, each server in the network is used as an access server to receive subscription and event information, and after the even channel of the information is determined according to an overall routing list, the information is transmitted to the event channel to be processed; and the system carries out the dynamic load balance during the running process, wherein the dynamic load balance comprises: the server with heavy loadselects a transferring load locally and selects a load receiving server in other servers, and the transferring load is transmitted to the load receiving server. The method can be used for the plurality of fields such as finance service, news service, sensor network, RFID application and the like.

The embodiment of the present invention discloses a voice news processing method, comprising: segmenting the news text to be processed to obtain at least one segment of the news text to be processed; performing speech conversion on each segment of the news text to be processed, Obtaining each segmented voice news; synthesizing each segmented voice news to obtain the voice news; pushing the voice news to the terminal. The embodiment of the invention also discloses a news server and a system. By adopting the invention, the news server can automatically process the news text to be processed quickly by segment, obtain the voice news and push it to the terminal, thereby improving the timeliness of the voice news.

A news content pushing method comprises: when a user visits a news server to read news content by means of a browser system of a client, a news content monitoring module of the client analyzes and records attribute data of the news content read by the user according to a preset analysis model, and sends the recorded attribute data of the news content to a control server in real time or at regular time (S10); the control server analyzes the received attribute data of the news content corresponding to the user according to a preset analysis rule, so as to obtain a reading tag corresponding to the user, the reading tag comprising a preferred news type (S20); the control server obtains news content associated to the reading tag corresponding to the user from at least one news server in real time or at regular time (S30); and the control server pushes the obtained news content to the client of the user (S40). Also disclosed is an electronic device in which a news content pushing system is stored. In this way, the control server can specify a news customer group, and can push news content in a targeted way according to reading habits of users, and accordingly the phenomena of the repetition of news content and the occurrence of news content copyright disputes are avoided.