Patent ID: 7865366

Claim:
A data formatting system comprising: a content retriever to retrieve and format data; a media file playlist generated by the content retriever from the data, the media file playlist including a playlist entry title identifying a title for a media file, a filename identifying the media file, and a metadata tag containing data for performing an action associated with the media file; a text file playlist that includes markup tags nested within other markup tags generated by the content retriever from text data, formatted in XML (extensible markup language); a text-to-speech converter configured to generate at least one audio file playlist from the text file playlist; and a configuration module associated with the content retriever configured to accept user input instructions that identify the data; wherein the action to be performed is calling a phone number or sending an email, and wherein the text file play list includes a text to speech markup tag that has a playlist name mark up tag nested within the text to speech markup tag.