Patent ID: 8768881

Claim:
One or more computer-readable memories implemented at least partially by hardware and storing executable instructions that, when executed by a client device, cause the client device to perform operations including: receiving, using an rsshttp object at the client device, a request for a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed; requesting from an associated RSS source feed data associated with the RSS feed by the rsshttp object utilizing an xmlhttp object to access Extensible Markup Language (XML) data associated with the RSS feed; in response to the requesting, obtaining by the rsshttp object at the client computer XML elements from the XML data associated with the RSS feed; building a normalized object model at the client computer to normalize a format of the feed data to a standard feed format; and exposing the normalized object model via an interface to entities that consume RSS data to enable the entities to interact with the feed data without having to understand the XML data that describes the RSS feed.