Subscription control panel

US7412534B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Audrey Y. Tsang · San Francisco, US
• Matt Fukuda · San Francisco, US
• Dan Wascovich · San Francisco, US
• Edward Stanley Ott, IV · Palo Alto, US
• Nathanael Joe Hayashi · Piedmont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 2006
• Grant date: Aug 12, 2008
• Expiry date: Dec 2, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for centrally managing subscriptions to feeds accessible at different locations on a network. A subscription server is provided that a user can log in to from any of the user's rendering devices and use to manage subscriptions to feeds, including subscribing to feeds, listening to episodes of feeds, downloading episodes to a rendering device, and rating and reviewing episodes. The user's history of actions with respect to feeds is tracked and stored on the subscription server. The user can then access this history via user interfaces generated by the subscription server to determine what actions the user has performed in the past.