REAL-TIME AND INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY-BASED CONTENT PUBLISHING SYSTEM
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1. A method for providing interactive content from a content provider in real-time, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:
- (a) establishing a real-time connection with each client in a community of clients, the real-time connection being established in context of a content resource being provided to the community of clients from a content provider;
(b) detecting an event corresponding to a content submission from one or more of the clients in the community;
(c) in response to detecting the event, sending a communication to each client in the community using the real-time connection with that client, so that each client is able to update a content resource provided from the content provider to include one or more changes that reflect the content submission.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided to enable clients to interact with a content resource (e.g., a webpage) in real-time, so that contributions from each client is communicated to the other clients in real-time.
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1. A method for providing interactive content from a content provider in real-time, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:
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(a) establishing a real-time connection with each client in a community of clients, the real-time connection being established in context of a content resource being provided to the community of clients from a content provider; (b) detecting an event corresponding to a content submission from one or more of the clients in the community; (c) in response to detecting the event, sending a communication to each client in the community using the real-time connection with that client, so that each client is able to update a content resource provided from the content provider to include one or more changes that reflect the content submission. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for providing a debate forum in real-time, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:
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predetermining one or more content contributors that are to have a select class designation for contributing content to the debate forum; for a discrete time-period, detecting a plurality of content submissions provided from multiple clients of a community for the debate forum, wherein each of the multiple clients has a particular class designation; in response to detecting each of the plurality of content submissions, providing a communication to the clients of the community that includes the content submission in real-time, and providing one or more properties with the communication that identifies the class designation of the client that provided the content submission. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer system for providing interactive content in real-time, the computer system comprising:
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a memory that stores a set of instructions; one or more processors that use instructions from the set of instructions, in order to; establish a real-time connection with each client in a community of clients, the real-time connection being established in context of a content resource being provided to the community of clients from a content provider; detect an event corresponding to a content submission from one or more of the clients in the community; in response to detecting the event, send a communication to each client in the community using the real-time connection with that client, so that each client is able to update the content resource to include one or more changes that reflect the content submission.
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