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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2006
Jonathan James Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daniel Joseph Raffel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pasha Sadri, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Edward Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Cheng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan James Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daniel Joseph Raffel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pasha Sadri, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Edward Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Cheng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A pipe specification editor is provided to configure a plurality of modules for processing a syndication data feed. The editor is operable to provide a graphical user interface to receive a user specification of a plurality of modules and to receive a user specification of wires. Each module is characterized by at least one of a group consisting of an input node and an output node, wherein the input node, if present, is configured to input a syndication data feed and the output node, if present, is configured to output a syndication data feed. At least one of the modules is a module configured to retrieve a source syndication data feed. The wires are configured to provide a syndication data feed provided from an output node of a module to an input node of another module.