Methods and systems for providing a customizable guide for navigating a corpus of content
First Claim
1. A method of providing a customizable guide for navigating content within a distributed communications system, the method comprising:
- accessing content;
applying zero or more culling parameters to the corpus of content to identify relevant content for one or more users;
receiving one or more sorting criteria specified for one or more users associated with the one or more users;
sorting the relevant content according to the one or more sorting criteria; and
rendering a customizable guide to present the sorted content to an end-user.
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Abstract
Methods and systems are described for navigating a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system. The content items may include video feeds, audio feeds, television broadcasts, website, a web log or the like. Using any browser application, the user views content items presented in an interactive scroll display. Modules are included for filtering, sorting and sampling content to ensure delivery of relevant high-quality content to the user. A feedback mechanism is also included for refining relevance filtering, sorting and sampling processes.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of providing a customizable guide for navigating content within a distributed communications system, the method comprising:
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accessing content; applying zero or more culling parameters to the corpus of content to identify relevant content for one or more users; receiving one or more sorting criteria specified for one or more users associated with the one or more users; sorting the relevant content according to the one or more sorting criteria; and rendering a customizable guide to present the sorted content to an end-user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system for providing a customizable guide for navigating a corpus of content within a distributed communications system, comprising:
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a culling module, wherein the culling module applies one or more culling parameters to the corpus of content to identify relevant content for one or more users; a sorter that implements one or more sorting criteria to sort the relevant content, wherein the sorter receives input from one or more users associated with the one or more users, said input specifying one or more sorting criteria; and a rendering engine configured to render a customizable guide to present the sorted content to an end-user. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code functions embedded in said medium for causing a computer to provide a customizable guide for navigating a corpus of content within a distributed communications system, the computer program product comprising:
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a first computer readable program code function that causes the computer to apply one or more culling parameters to the corpus of content to identify relevant content for one or more users; a second computer readable program code function that causes the computer to receive one or more sorting criteria from one or more users associated with the one or more users; a third computer readable program code function that causes the computer to implement the one or more sorting criteria to sort the relevant content; and a fourth computer readable program code function that causes the computer to render a customizable guide to present the sorted content to an end-user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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