PERSONALIZATION OF NEWS ARTICLES BASED ON NEWS SOURCES
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Abstract
News search and browse experience is personalized based on user preferences. User attributes like a geographic location are obtained and news sources preferred by other users with attributes similar to those of a requesting user are identified. News sources that are popular across different user groups are eliminated and relevant news items from the remaining news sources are retrieved and presented to the requesting user.
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Citations
45 Claims
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1-23. -23. (canceled)
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24. A method of providing news, comprising:
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receiving, by a processor, a request for news articles from a user; identifying, by the processor, a geographic location of the requesting user, the identifying of the geographic location comprising identifying the geographic location from a Designated Market Area (DMA); matching, by the processor, the DMA with geographic locations associated with news sources; determining, by the processor from the matching and from the geographic location of the user, a geographic location of local news sources; obtaining, by the processor, relevant news items from the local news sources; and transmitting, by the processor, the relevant news items for presentation to the requesting user. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 44, 45)
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31. The method of claim 31, further comprising identifying, by the processor, two user groups from one DMA each as having similar attributes as the requesting user and relevant news items from local news sources associated with both the DMAs is retrieved for presentation to the user.
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32. A computing device, comprising:
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a processor; a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for executing by the processor, the program logic comprising; receiving logic, executed by the processor, for receiving a request for news articles from a user; identifying logic, executed by the processor, for identifying a geographic location of the requesting user, the identifying of the geographic location comprising identifying the geographic location from a Designated Market Area (DMA); matching logic, executed by the processor, for matching the DMA with geographic locations associated with news sources; determining logic, executed by the processor, for determining, from the matching and from the geographic location of the user, a geographic location of local news sources; obtaining logic, executed by the processor, for obtaining relevant news items from the local news sources; and transmitting logic, executed by the processor, for transmitting the relevant news items for presentation to the requesting user. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing thereon computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:
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receiving, by a processor, a request for news articles from a user; identifying, by the processor, a geographic location of the requesting user, the identifying of the geographic location comprising identifying the geographic location from a Designated Market Area (DMA); matching, by the processor, the DMA with geographic locations associated with news sources; determining, by the processor from the matching and from the geographic location of the user, a geographic location of local news sources; obtaining, by the processor, relevant news items from the local news sources; and transmitting, by the processor, the relevant news items for presentation to the requesting user. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43)
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