Patent ID: 8886707
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a syndication feed from a content host at a syndication aggregator, wherein the syndication feed comprises a structured representation of content available from the content host, the structured representation comprising a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs) corresponding to a plurality of syndication feed items available from the content host; at the syndication aggregator, modifying the syndication feed such that a modified syndication feed is formed, wherein modifying the syndication feed includes modifying the plurality of URLs corresponding to the plurality syndication feed items such that each of the plurality of URLs is modified to include location information of an intervention service associated with the syndication aggregator; from the syndication aggregator, sending the modified syndication feed to a syndication reader program that is configured to enable a user that has subscribed to the syndication feed to request the syndication feed items via the modified syndication feed's modified URLs; receiving at the intervention service a notification of a request from the syndication reader program for content associated with a particular syndication feed item from the modified syndication feed; at the intervention service, obtaining content corresponding to the particular syndication feed item from the content host; and providing from the intervention service the content obtained from the content host and additional content to the syndication reader program that is further configured to cause both the additional content and the content obtained from the content host to be displayed.