SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT DELIVERY

• US 20150195379A1
• Filed: 01/03/2014
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Media, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Maria Renhui, D'Aloisio-Montilla, Nicholas, Mai, Maximillion Zhaohong, Venkatesan, Praveenkumar
• Granted Patent: US 9,742,836 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identify: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, by a computer system, a plurality of articles, wherein each of the plurality of articles includes one or more content items;

generating, by the computer system, a content digest that includes the plurality of articles;

transmitting, to a computing device of a user, a notification indicating the content digest is ready to be downloaded;

receiving, from the user'"'"'s computing device, a request for a first portion of the content digest;

transmitting the first portion of the content digest to a computing device of a user at a first time in response to the request for the first portion;

receiving, from the user'"'"'s computing device, a request for a second portion of the content digest;

transmitting the second portion of the content digest to the user'"'"'s computing device at a second time in response to the request for the second portion, wherein the portions of the content digest are transmitted to the user'"'"'s computing device without providing any notification of the transmissions to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the entire content digest is transmitted to the user'"'"'s computing device prior to a predetermined time when the content digest is to be presented to the user via the user'"'"'s computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the portions of the content digest are transmitted to the user'"'"'s computing device for storage in a memory of the user'"'"'s computing device and for retrieval and display at a time subsequent to the first time and the second time.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising compressing the content digest prior to transmission.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first time and the second time are separated by an interval of at least five seconds.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing, by the user'"'"'s computing device, a connection between the computer system and the user'"'"'s computing device to determine a quality level of the connection; and

requesting the first portion of the content digest only in response to the quality level of the connection at the first time meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user'"'"'s computing device, in response to determining the quality level of the connection is beneath a predetermined threshold, requests lead images in the content digest in the first request and requests thumbnails of gallery images in the second request.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the user'"'"'s computing device, in response to determining the quality level of the connection meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold, requests all images in the content digest in the first request.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to transmitting the first request, the user'"'"'s computing device removes data from a previously-stored content digest from the user'"'"'s computing device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein removal of the previously-stored content is based on one or more of:

when the previously-stored content was stored in memory on the user'"'"'s computing device, an amount of storage remaining in memory on the user'"'"'s computing device, and whether the user accessed the previously-stored content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first time and second time are separated by a predetermined interval, and wherein the user'"'"'s computing device delays the requesting of the first portion of the content digest until the quality level of the connection meets or exceeds the predetermined threshold.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more content items include one or more of:

text, an image, video, audio, a map, a uniform resource locator, a graph, a slideshow, an article, and a file.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein generating each article in the plurality of articles includes:

ranking a plurality of content items on a topic;

selecting a subset of content items from the plurality of content items based on the respective ranking of each content item; and

including the subset of content items in the article.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of content items are received from a plurality of content sources.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein ranking each respective content item is based on one or more of:

a popularity level of the respective content item, an age of the respective content item, a size of the respective content item, an author associated with the respective content item, a publisher associated with the respective content item, and a quality rating of the respective content item.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein selecting the subset of content items includes selecting a first content item in a first format and a second content item in a second format, wherein the first content item has the highest ranking of any of the plurality of content items in the first format, and the second content item has the highest ranking of any of the plurality of content items in the second format.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein generating the article includes ordering and positioning the selected subset of content items within the article based on the respective rankings of each respective content item in the subset.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the articles in the content digest to the user audibly, by the user'"'"'s computing device, at a predetermined time.

19. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:

generate a plurality of articles, wherein each of the plurality of articles includes one or more content items;

generate a content digest that includes the plurality of articles;

transmit, to a computing device of a user, a notification indicating the content digest is ready to be downloaded;

receive, from the user'"'"'s computing device, a request for a first portion of the content digest;

transmit the first portion of the content digest to a computing device of a user at a first time in response to the request for the first portion;

receive, from the user'"'"'s computing device, a request for a second portion of the content digest;

transmit the second portion of the content digest to the user'"'"'s computing device at a second time in response to the request for the second portion, wherein the portions of the content digest are transmitted to the user'"'"'s computing device without providing any notification of the transmissions to the user.

20. A system comprising:

a processor; and

memory in communication with the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to;

generate a plurality of articles, wherein each of the plurality of articles includes one or more content items;

generate a content digest that includes the plurality of articles;

transmit, to a computing device of a user, a notification indicating the content digest is ready to be downloaded;

receive, from the user'"'"'s computing device, a request for a first portion of the content digest;

transmit the first portion of the content digest to a computing device of a user at a first time in response to the request for the first portion;

receive, from the user'"'"'s computing device, a request for a second portion of the content digest;

transmit the second portion of the content digest to the user'"'"'s computing device at a second time in response to the request for the second portion, wherein the portions of the content digest are transmitted to the user'"'"'s computing device without providing any notification of the transmissions to the user.