Custom onboarding process for application functionality

• US 10,268,335 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2016
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Flipboard Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Flipboard Incorporated
• Inventors: Lee, Douglas Tchun Jia
• Primary Examiner(s): Weng, Pei Yong
• Application Number:
  US15/280,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20180088742A1
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A user is presented with a digital magazine through a user interface of his/her client device. By monitoring the user'"'"'s interactions with the digital magazine or content of the digital magazine, action with the user interface can be used to progress the user to discovery of and access to similarly grouped functionality, e.g., a reader category, a communicator category, and a curator category. For example, each category of user interactions can represent a different set of functions of the digital magazine. Based on the user interactions, a skill level of the user in each of the categories can be determined. One or more functions of the digital magazine can then be selected for presentation to the user based on the user'"'"'s skill level in each category. The user interface of the digital magazine can then be modified to include the additional functions of the digital magazine, and the digital magazine can be presented to the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

presenting a digital magazine to a user via a user interface on a client device, the user interface comprising a first set of user interface (UI) elements for the user to interact with the digital magazine via a first set of functions;

monitoring user'"'"'s interactions with one or more content items of the digital magazine, each interaction associated with one or more of a plurality of categories of functions of the digital magazine, each category describing a type of function of the digital magazine;

determining, for each category of the plurality of categories of functions, a skill level of the user for that category of functions based on the monitored user interactions associated with the category;

selecting a second set of additional functions of the digital magazine other than the first set of functions to be presented to the user based on the user'"'"'s skill level for the category of function associated with each additional function of the second set of additional functions;

modifying the user interface to include a second set of additional UI elements for the user to perform the second set of additional functions of the digital magazine, wherein each function of the second set of additional functions is associated with one or more additional UI element of the second set of additional UI elements; and

presenting the digital magazine to a user via the modified user interface on the client device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of UI elements comprises a predetermined number of basic elements, and a user interaction with the digital magazine through a basic element represents a basic skill level with a function of the digital magazine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of categories of functions comprises a reader category, a communicator category, and a curator category.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the reader category is associated with user interactions comprising at least one of:

subscribing to a topic of the digital magazine;

marking a content item of the digital magazine for suggested reading;

viewing a content item of the digital magazine; and

viewing a content tag of a content item of the digital magazine.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the communicator category is associated with user interactions comprising at least one of:

showing a favorable opinion to a content item of the digital magazine;

commenting on a content item of the digital magazine;

showing a favorable opinion to a comment on a content item of the digital magazine;

answering a question presented by the digital magazine; and

posting a question on the user interface of the digital magazine.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the curator category is associated with user interactions comprising at least one of:

adding a content item to the digital magazine;

adding a caption to a content item of the digital magazine; and

promoting a content item to a cover of the digital magazine.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each category of functions of the digital magazine is presented in a hierarchical tree structure, and wherein each function at a next level of the hierarchical tree structure is associated with a skill level that is higher than the skill level associated with a previous level of the hierarchical tree structure.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, from a client device, a plurality of user interactions with a digital magazine presented to a user of the client device, each user interaction associated with one or more of a plurality of categories of functions of the digital magazine, each category describing a type of function of the digital magazine;

determining, for each category of the plurality of categories of functions, a skill level of the user for that category of functions based on the plurality of user interactions associated with the category;

generating, based on the determined skill levels of the user in each of the plurality of categories of functions, a user profile indicating a type of the user;

selecting one or more content items of the digital magazine based on the user profile; and

providing the selected content items for presenting to the user on the client device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the type of the user is one of a reader, a communicator, and a curator.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content items of the digital magazine based on the user profile comprises selecting content items based on the type of user identified in the user profile.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of:

presenting a digital magazine to a user via a user interface on a client device, the user interface comprising a first set of user interface (UI) elements for the user to interact with the digital magazine via a first set of functions;

monitoring user'"'"'s interactions with one or more content items of the digital magazine, each interaction associated with one or more of a plurality of categories of functions of the digital magazine, each category describing a type of function of the digital magazine;

determining, for each category of the plurality of categories of functions, a skill level of the user for that category of functions based on the monitored user interactions associated with the category;

selecting a second set of additional functions of the digital magazine other than the first set of functions to be presented to the user based on the user'"'"'s skill level for the category of function associated with each additional function of the second set of additional functions;

modifying the user interface to include a second set of additional UI elements for the user to perform the second set of additional functions of the digital magazine, wherein each function of the second set of additional functions is associated with one or more additional UI element of the second set of additional UI elements; and

presenting the digital magazine to a user via the modified user interface on the client device.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the first set of UI elements comprises a predetermined number of basic elements, and a user interaction with the digital magazine through a basic element represents a basic skill level with a function of the digital magazine.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the plurality of categories of functions comprises a reader category, a communicator category, and a curator category.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the reader category is associated with user interactions comprising at least one of:

subscribing to a topic of the digital magazine;

marking a content item of the digital magazine for suggested reading;

viewing a content item of the digital magazine; and

viewing content tag of a content item of the digital magazine.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the communicator category is associated with user interactions comprising at least one of:

showing a favorable opinion to a content item of the digital magazine;

commenting on a content item of the digital magazine;

showing a favorable opinion to a comment on a content item of the digital magazine;

answering a question presented by the digital magazine; and

posting a question on the user interface of the digital magazine.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the curator category is associated with user interactions comprising at least one of:

adding a content item to the digital magazine;

adding a caption to a content item of the digital magazine; and

promoting a content item to a cover of the digital magazine.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein each category of functions of the digital magazine is presented in a hierarchical tree structure, and wherein each function at a next level of the hierarchical tree structure is associated with a skill level that is higher than the skill level associated with a previous level of the hierarchical tree structure.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of:

receiving, from a client device, a plurality of user interactions with a digital magazine presented to a user of the client device, each user interaction associated with one or more of a plurality of categories of functions of the digital magazine, each category describing a type of function of the digital magazine;

determining, for each category of the plurality of categories of functions, a skill level of the user for that category of functions based on the plurality of user interactions associated with the category;

generating, based on the determined skill levels of the user in each of the plurality of categories of functions, a user profile indicating a type of the user;

selecting one or more content items of the digital magazine based on the user profile; and

providing the selected content items for presenting to the user on the client device.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the type of the user is one of a reader, a communicator, and a curator.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein selecting one or more content items of the digital magazine based on the user profile comprises selecting content items based on the type of user identified in the user profile.