Patent ID: 8321557

Claim:
A method comprising: determining whether a client is SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) enabled; determining a type of request to issue from the client to a Web feed server, the type of request being based on whether the client is SIP enabled; in response to determining the client is SIP enabled, issuing, by the client and to the Web feed server, a SIP request to subscribe to a Web feed; in response to receiving, by the client and from the Web feed server, a response to the SIP request, determining, by the client, that the Web feed server is not compatible with the SIP request where the response indicates that the Web feed server does not support the SIP request method; in response to determining that the Web feed server is not compatible with the SIP request, polling, by the client, the Web feed server to receive the Web feed from the Web feed server, where polling the Web feed server includes sending, to the Web feed server, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request based on the SIP request; and receiving, by the client and in response to polling the Web feed server, the Web feed from the Web feed server.