METHODS, SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR BLENDING ONLINE CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE DISPARATE CONTENT SOURCES INCLUDING A PERSONAL CONTENT SOURCE OR A SEMI-PERSONAL CONTENT SOURCE

• US 20170098283A1
• Filed: 10/05/2015
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Rajan, Suju, Hong, Liangjie, Liu, Nathan, Gaffney, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 11,232,522 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing content from multiple disparate sources including a person'"'"'s personal data sources and non-personal data sources. The disclosed techniques may include receiving a request for content from a person; obtaining first content from a first source private to the person based on the request; obtaining second content from at least one second source based on the request; blending the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source to generate a blended content; and providing the blended content to the person in response to the request.

Claims

1. A method, implemented on at least one computing device each of which has at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for providing content, the method comprising:

receiving a request for content from a person;

obtaining first content from a first source private to the person based on the request;

obtaining second content from at least one second source based on the request;

blending the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source to generate a blended content; and

providing the blended content to the person in response to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first source private to the person includes:

private electronic mails;

private calendar;

private contact list;

private messages;

private bookmarks;

private visual information;

private voice information; and

private log information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one second source includes:

a semi-private data source; and

a public data source.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the semi-private data source includes:

a social media data source; and

a data sharing source.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the blended content comprises:

a first portion including the first content; and

a second portion including the second content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the second content are mixed in the blended content.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source are blended based on normalized feature sets.

7. A system having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform for providing content, the system comprising:

an input request processing unit implemented on the at least one processor and configured to receive a request for content from a person;

a first content retriever implemented on the at least one processor and configured to obtain first content from a first source private to the person based on the request;

a second content retriever implemented on the at least one processor and configured to obtain second content from at least one second source based on the request; and

a blending engine implemented on the at least one processor and configured to;

blend the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source to generate a blended content, and

provide the blended content to the person in response to the request.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first source private to the person includes:

private electronic mails;

private calendar;

private contact list;

private messages;

private bookmarks;

private visual information;

private voice information; and

private log information.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one second source includes:

a semi-private data source; and

a public data source.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the semi-private data source includes:

a social media data source; and

a data sharing source.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the blended content comprises:

a first portion including the first content; and

a second portion including the second content.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the first and the second content are mixed in the blended content.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having information recorded thereon for providing query suggestions, wherein the information, when read by the machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for content from a person;

obtaining first content from a first source private to the person based on the request;

obtaining second content from at least one second source based on the request;

blending the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source to generate a blended content; and

providing the blended content to the person in response to the request.

14. The medium of claim 13, wherein the first source private to the person includes:

private electronic mails;

private calendar;

private contact list;

private messages;

private bookmarks;

private visual information;

private voice information; and

private log information.

15. The medium of claim 13, wherein the at least one second source includes:

a semi-private data source; and

a public data source.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein the semi-private data source includes:

a social media data source; and

a data sharing source.

17. The medium of claim 13, wherein the blended content comprises:

a first portion including the first content; and

a second portion including the second content.

18. The medium of claim 13, wherein the first and the second content are mixed in the blended content.

20. The medium of claim 13, wherein the first content from the first source and the second content from the at least one second source are blended based on normalized feature sets.