Patent ID: 7159174

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 generated by the content retriever from the text data, formatted in XML (extensible markup language), and includes: text-to-speech markup tags identifying the XML-formatted text file as a text-to-speech conversion file; playlist name markup tags within the text-to-speech markup tags identifying a playlist type and a playlist title; entry title markup tags within the playlist name markup tags identifying a playlist entry title; text filename markup tags within the entry title markup tags identifying a text segment and a text filename for the text segment; and action markup tags within the entry title markup tags identifying data for performing an action associated with the text segment; 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.