Systems and methods for personalizing a newspaper

• US 20080262998A1
• Filed: 04/17/2007
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gulli, Antonio, Signorini, Alessio, Ottaviano, Giuseppe
• Application Number:
  US11/787,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20080262998A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Systems and methods for presenting news information and personalizing presentation of news information are disclosed. Users are presented with a selectable, visual representation of the news information. Users can access additional news information and/or a personalized newspaper by selecting a visual representation of the news information. Systems and methods for monitoring user selection and modifying the personalized newspaper are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for presenting electronic information comprising:

clustering news information according to a topic to create topic clusters, each topic cluster having a news information object associated with the topic cluster;

presenting the news information objects associated with the topic clusters in a user interface; and

receiving a user selection of one or more of the news information objects in the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting the user with news information associated with the selected topic clusters.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing the user to access a personalized newspaper, the personalized newspaper including news information associated with the topic cluster.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating a news information object with a topic cluster.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the topic cluster is part of a topic chain, and wherein the news information object is associated with the topic chain.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the news information object consists essentially of a representative image and a representative title.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection comprises a mouse click.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising highlighting the news information object in the user interface when a user selection is received.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein presenting comprises presenting the user with an article from a selected topic cluster.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein the personalized newspaper comprises an article from a selected topic cluster.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing user selection of news information objects.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising presenting the user with unselected news information based on stored user selections.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising presenting the user with updated news information based on stored user selections.

14. A method for presenting electronic information comprising:

allowing a user to access a collection of visual objects, each visual objected associated with at least one news article;

receiving a user selection of one or more visual object from the collection of visual objects; and

presenting a personalized newspaper including news information relating to the at least one news article associated with each selected visual object.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein each visual object in the collection of visual objects is associated with a representative title, the user selecting either or both of the one or more visual objects or representative titles.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein presenting comprises presenting an abstract of a selected news article and a link to access the entire article.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving a user modification of a layout of the personalized newspaper.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising allowing a user to share the personalized newspaper.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the collection of visual objects is categorized, and wherein the user is allowed to access the visual objects based on a selected category.

20. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing the user with unselected news information related to a selected article.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the visual objects comprise images.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the visual objects comprise videos.

23. The method of claim 14, further comprising a plurality of users to access the collection of visual objects.

24. The method of claim 14, further comprising annotating the personalized newspaper with a label, the label related to at least one topic of the personalized newspaper.

25. The method of claim 25, further comprising allowing a user to locate a personalized newspaper related to the at least one topic by searching for the label associated with the at least one topic.