Methods and systems for accessing relevant content

• US 10,033,776 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: De Napoli Ferreira, Guilherme Carlos, Masterson, Christopher Wayne, Thomson, Scott Andrew, Chiang, Jon Yee
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cam-Linh
• Application Number:
  US14/580,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20160179808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,310 Days
• Field of Search: 707725
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A server system receives a first request for access to content items from a user device associated with a user. In response to the first request, links to a plurality of content categories are sent for display on the user device. The content categories include a plurality of content items. Furthermore, a first group of content items determined to be relevant to the user is identified in accordance with one or more relevance criteria. The first group of content items includes a first subset of the plurality of content items. In response to the first request, links to the first group of content items are sent for display on the user device in addition to the plurality of content categories.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a server system with one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors;

receiving a first request for access to content items from a user device associated with a user;

in response to the first request, sending links to a plurality of content categories for display on the user device, wherein the content categories comprise a plurality of content items, and wherein in response to a selection of a link to one of the content categories, the plurality of content items comprising the one of the content categories is sent for display on the user device;

identifying a first group of content items determined to be relevant to the user in accordance with one or more relevance criteria, wherein the first group of content items comprises a first subset of the plurality of content items,

wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises determining, for a respective content item of the plurality of content items, a respective relevance score based on one or more relevance criteria;

in response to the first request, sending links to the first group of content items for display on the user device in addition to the links to the plurality of content categories,

in accordance with user feedback from the user, adjusting a relevance score of a first content item of the first group of content items;

identifying a second group of content items determined to be relevant to the user in accordance with the one or more relevance criteria and the adjusted relevance score of the first content item, wherein the second group of content items comprises a second subset of the plurality of content items; and

sending links to the second group of content items for display on the user device in place of the links to the first group of content items.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein respective content categories of the plurality of content categories are selected from the group consisting of social-media groups, social-media pages, social-media events, social-media applications, and social-media feeds.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more relevance criteria comprise at least one of:

a temporal proximity of the respective content item to the first request;

a role of the user with respect to the respective content item; and

an interaction frequency of the user with the respective content item.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

determining the respective relevance score comprises determining at least one of;

a temporal score based on the temporal proximity of the respective content item to the first request;

a role score based on the role of the user with respect to the respective content item; and

an interaction score based on the interaction frequency of the user with respect to the respective content item.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each content item of the first subset of the plurality of content items has a respective relevance score satisfying a relevance threshold.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising ordering the first group of content items based on the respective relevance scores of the first subset of the plurality of content items.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the user feedback indicates user interest in the first content item;

the second subset of the plurality of content items comprises the first content item; and

the method further comprises ordering the second group of content items in accordance with the one or more relevance criteria and the adjusted relevance score of the first content item, wherein the first content item has a higher position in the second group than in the first group.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the user feedback indicates a lack of user interest in the first content item;

the second subset of the plurality of content items comprises the first content item; and

the method further comprises ordering the second group of content items in accordance with the one or more relevance criteria and the adjusted relevance score of the first content item, wherein the first content item has a lower position in the second group than in the first group.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user feedback indicates a lack of user interest in the first content item, the method further comprising omitting the first content item from the second group of content items.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second request for access to content items from the user device after receipt of the user feedback; and

in response to the second request, sending the links to the plurality of content categories for display on the user device;

wherein sending the links to the second group of content items for display on the user device in place of the links to the first group of content items is performed in response to the second request, in addition to sending the links to the plurality of content categories for display on the user device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises identifying an upcoming event with an event time within a specified time period with respect to a time of the first request.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises identifying an upcoming event, of a plurality of upcoming events, with an event time closest to a time of the first request.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises identifying a social-media page that the user administers.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises identifying a content item, of the plurality of content items, for which the user has satisfied a threshold number of interactions.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein:

sending the links to the plurality of content categories comprises providing the links to the plurality of content categories for display in a first section of a graphical user interface shown; and

sending the links to the first group of content items comprises providing the links to the first group of content items for display in a second section of the graphical user interface.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of content items in the first group of content items is based on at least one of:

an activity level of the user; and

a type of the user device.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one content item is included in both the plurality of content items and the first group of content items, and is sent as a link for display on the user device as part of both the plurality of content items and the first group of content items.

18. A server system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

in response to a first request for access to content items from a user device associated with a user, sending links to a plurality of content categories for display on the user device, wherein the content categories comprise a plurality of content items, and wherein in response to a selection of a link to one of the content categories, the plurality of content items comprising the one of the content categories is to be sent for display on the user device;

identifying a first group of content items determined to be relevant to the user in accordance with one or more relevance criteria, wherein the first group of content items comprises a first subset of the plurality of content items,

wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises determining, for a respective content item of the plurality of content items, a respective relevance score based on one or more relevance criteria;

in response to the first request, sending links to the first group of content items for display on the user device in addition to the links to the plurality of content categories;

in accordance with user feedback from the user, adjusting a relevance score of a first content item of the first group of content items;

identifying a second group of content items determined to be relevant to the user in accordance with the one or more relevance criteria and the adjusted relevance score of the first content item, wherein the second group of content items comprises a second subset of the plurality of content items; and

sending links to the second group of content items for display on the user device in place of the links to the first group of content items.

19. The server system of claim 18, wherein the one or more relevance criteria comprise at least one of:

a temporal proximity of the respective content item to the first request;

a role of the user with respect to the respective content item; and

an interaction frequency of the user with the respective content item.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:

in response to a first request for access to content items from a user device associated with a user, sending links to a plurality of content categories for display on the user device, wherein the content categories comprise a plurality of content items, and wherein in response to a selection of a link to one of the content categories, the plurality of content items comprising the one of the content categories is to be sent for display on the user device;

identifying a first group of content items determined to be relevant to the user in accordance with one or more relevance criteria, wherein the first group of content items comprises a first subset of the plurality of content items,

wherein identifying the first group of content items comprises determining, for a respective content item of the plurality of content items, a respective relevance score based on one or more relevance criteria;

in response to the first request, sending links to the first group of content items for display on the user device in addition to the links to the plurality of content categories;

in accordance with user feedback from the user, adjusting a relevance score of a first content item of the first group of content items;

identifying a second group of content items determined to be relevant to the user in accordance with the one or more relevance criteria and the adjusted relevance score of the first content item, wherein the second group of content items comprises a second subset of the plurality of content items; and

sending links to the second group of content items for display on the user device in place of the links to the first group of content items.