AUXILIARY DISPLAY GADGET FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTENT

摘要

DESCRIBED IS A TECHNOLOGY BY WHICH A SPECIFIC GADGET PROGRAM IS INSTALLED (E.G., CREATED) ON A MAIN HOST COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT RECEIVES DATA (E.G., AN RSS FEED) FROM A DISTRIBUTION SOURCE, IN WHICH THE FEED DATA CONTAINS THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO INSTALL THE GADGET (240). ONCE INSTALLED, GADGET (240) IS THEN USED TO RECEIVE CONTENT FROM ITS CORRESPONDING DATA SOURCE (212) AND PROVIDE THE CONTENT FOR DISPLAY ON AN AUXILIARY DISPLAY DEVICE (220). THE FEED DATA MAY INCLUDE METADATA (222) SUCH AS A GADGET-RELATED ENCLOSURE, FROM WHICH THE INSTALLER MAY REGISTER INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO THE METADATA (222) IN A REGISTRY (234) OR THE LIKE, AND ASSOCIATE THE GADGET WITH ONE OR MORE PARTICULAR AUXILIARY DISPLAYS. BY PROCESSING THE METADATA (222), THE OTHER GADGET (240) IS INSTALLED AND THEN RUN AS NEEDED TO HANDLE (620, 622) CONTENT (224) DATA FROM THE CORRESPONDING DATA SOURCE, IN ORDER TO RENDER CONTENT ON AN AUXILIARY DISPLAY.