System and Method for Presenting Content to a User
First Claim
1. A method for assisting a user in locating particular content of interest from a collection of content including associated feature values that correspond to features, the method comprising the acts of:
- a) determining, by the user, to filter the collection of content to yield a filtered collection of content using a filtering feature value,b) selecting a grouping feature based on at least one of the filtering feature value and feature values associated with the filtered collection of content,c) grouping the filtered collection of content using the selected grouping feature.
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Abstract
Assisting a user in locating particular content of interest from a collection of content including associated feature values and corresponding features. A user selects one of the plurality of feature values characterizing the collection of content and filters the content using the selected filtering feature value. The system groups the filtered collection using a grouping feature. The grouping feature may be associated with the user-selected filtering feature value and/or may be determined from the feature values of the filtered collection. The process of filtering/grouping may be repeated as many times as needed to locate the particular content of interest.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for assisting a user in locating particular content of interest from a collection of content including associated feature values that correspond to features, the method comprising the acts of:
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a) determining, by the user, to filter the collection of content to yield a filtered collection of content using a filtering feature value, b) selecting a grouping feature based on at least one of the filtering feature value and feature values associated with the filtered collection of content, c) grouping the filtered collection of content using the selected grouping feature. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system for assisting a user in locating particular content of interest from a collection of content including a plurality of associated feature values, the system comprising:
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a content locator module configured to manage operations associated with filtering and/or grouping the collection of content, and a feature structure model, operatively coupled to the content locator module, the feature structure model including a filter feature having associated filtering feature values and at least one associated group feature having associated grouping feature values. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer-readable medium encoded with processing instructions for implementing a method for assisting a user in locating particular content of interest from a collection of content including associated feature values that correspond to features, the method including the acts of:
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determining, by the user, to filter the collection of content to yield a filtered collection of content using a filtering feature value from among the feature values, wherein the filtering feature value is user-selected; selecting a grouping feature based on at least one of the user-selected filtering feature value and a feature of the filtered collection of content; and grouping the filtered collection of content using the selected grouping feature. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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