Personalized content feed suggestions page

• US 20070083520A1
• Filed: 10/07/2005
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Parparita, Mihai, Shellen, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 8,190,997 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A user may be presented with suggestions of content feeds to which she may subscribe. The suggestions are based on documents, such as web pages, accessed by the user. The content feeds suggested to the user are content feeds associated with at least some of the documents accessed by the user. The user may accept or reject any or all of the suggestions. A suggestion of a content feed may be suppressed based on a rejection of a past suggestion for the same content feed.

Claims

1. A method of providing content, comprising:

identifying a document;

determining if the document has an associated content feed; and

if the document is determined to have an associated content feed, providing a suggestion to a user to subscribe to the content feed.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the document is determined to have the associated content feed and the user has a present subscription to the content feed, suppressing the provision of the suggestion.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the document is determined to have the associated content feed and the user has rejected a past suggestion to subscribe to the content feed, suppressing the provision of the suggestion.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein suppressing the provision comprises suppressing the provision of the suggestion for at least a predefined duration.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the document comprises identifying a web page visited by the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining if the document has the associated content feed comprises determining if the document includes a locator of the content feed.

7. A method of providing content, comprising:

identifying a plurality of documents;

identifying a subset of the plurality of documents that have associated content feeds; and

providing suggestions to a user to subscribe to at least a subset of the content feeds associated with the identified subset of the plurality of documents.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein identifying the plurality of documents comprises identifying web pages visited by the user.

9. A method of subscribing to content, comprising:

receiving and presenting to a user a set of content subscription suggestions, including a plurality of content subscription suggestions associated with web pages visited by the user; and

subscribing to content feeds corresponding to one or more selections by the user from the set of content subscription suggestions.

10. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for:

identifying a document;

determining if the document has an associated content feed; and

if the document is determined to have an associated content feed, providing a suggestion to a user to subscribe to the content feed.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising instructions for:

if the document is determined to have the associated content feed and the user has a present subscription to the content feed, suppressing the provision of the suggestion.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising instructions for:

if the document is determined to have the associated content feed and the user has rejected a past suggestion to subscribe to the content feed, suppressing the provision of the suggestion.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the instructions for suppressing the provision comprise instructions for suppressing the provision of the suggestion for at least a predefined duration.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the instructions for identifying the document comprise instructions for identifying a web page visited by the user.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the instructions for determining if the document has the associated content feed comprise instructions for determining if the document includes a locator of the content feed.

16. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for:

identifying a plurality of documents;

identifying a subset of the plurality of documents that have associated content feeds; and

providing suggestions to a user to subscribe to at least a subset of the content feeds.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein identifying the plurality of documents comprises identifying web pages visited by the user.

18. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for:

receiving and presenting to a user a set of content subscription suggestions, including a plurality of content subscription suggestions associated with web pages visited by the user; and

subscribing to content feeds corresponding to one or more selections by the user from the set of content subscription suggestions.

19. A system for subscribing to content, comprising:

means for receiving and presenting to a user a set of content subscription suggestions, including a plurality of content subscription suggestions associated with web pages visited by the user; and

means for subscribing to content feeds corresponding to one or more selections by the user from the set of content subscription suggestions.