Feed Content Presentation

• US 20100241579A1
• Filed: 03/19/2009
• Published: 09/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Obasanjo, Oludare V., Dolin, Robert M., Bassett, Charles D., Walters, Benjamin C., Bruno, John P., Tam, Helen HL
• Application Number:
  US12/407,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20100241579A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Feed content presentation techniques are described. In an implementation, data from a plurality of feeds of data is aggregated. The data that is aggregated may include an attribute that describes the data and is associated with a member of a social network service. The data is filtered for presentation based on one or more of a user context associated with a member that is to consume the presentation when the data is requested or a particular attribute of the data selected by a member that is to consume the presentation.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

aggregating data from a plurality of feeds of data that each include an attribute that describes the data and are associated with a member of a social network service; and

filtering said data for presentation based on one or more of a particular said attribute selected by a member that is to consume the presentation or a user context associated with the member that is to consume the presentation when the data is requested.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said attributes comprise one or more of:

a data type,

a status, or

a profile update.

3. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the data type is one or more of:

a photograph,

a video, or

a blog entry.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the data comprises data that forms an update to data previously obtained.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the user context is one or more of:

interacting with a photograph,

interacting with a video,

blogging,

viewing network status,

updating network status, or

interacting with a profile.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said feeds of data are each obtained from a third party source that is publicly available.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said feeds of data are each obtained from separate sources.

8. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising updating the presentation with additional data that corresponds to the one or more of the user context or the particular said attribute upon which the filtering is based.

9. A method comprising:

aggregating one or more feeds of data that each include data that is associated with an attribute that describes the data and is associated with a member of a network service;

filtering the data for presentation based on a particular said attribute selected by a member that is to consume the presentation; and

filtering the data based on a user context for the member that requested the data.

10. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the particular said attribute comprise one or more of:

a data type,

a status, or

a profile update.

11. A method as described in claim 10, wherein the data type is one or more of:

a photograph,

a video, or

a blog.

12. A method as described in claim 9, wherein said feeds of data include content of different data types.

13. A method as described in claim 12, wherein the user context is one or more of:

interacting with a photograph,

interacting with a video,

blogging,

viewing network status,

updating network status, or

interacting with a profile.

14. A method as described in claim 9, wherein said feeds of data are each obtained from separate third party sources that are publicly available.

15. One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions that are executable to:

aggregate content from one or more feeds of content by a social network service, the content is associated with a data type and is publicly available; and

control presentation of the content by an Internet connected application that is to access a web site for the social network service, in which control is based on;

selection of a particular said data type for presentation in the Internet connected application; and

selection of a user context that describes an activity associated with the Internet connected application when a request for content is received by the social network service.

16. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein said feeds of content are each obtained from third party sources that are separate from the social network service.

17. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein the instructions are further configured to store the content with the social network service.

18. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein the instructions are further configured to check for content that forms an update to said content from said feeds of content.

19. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein said data type is one or more of:

a photograph,

a video, or

a blog.

20. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein the user context is one or more of:

interacting with a photograph,

interacting with a video,

blogging,

viewing network status,

updating network status, or

interacting with a profile.