Methods and systems for community-based content aggregation

• US 8,438,224 B1
• Filed: 04/24/2008
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Chirita, Paul-Alexandru, Aho, Kirsti-Marie, Kopriva, Todd Michael Groner, Regan, Robert Joseph Jr., Wendling, Tanya Ingrid, Serban, Alexandru Bogdan, Nichoson, Mark Eric, Zaharia, Marius Georgian
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yi, David X
• Application Number:
  US12/109,119
• Time in Patent Office: 1,839 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0231 Awarding of a frequent usage incentive independent of the monetary value of a good or service purchased, or distance travelled
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for managing elements and users of a community-based content aggregation system. An element is received that includes content associated with a community topic. The element is provided to a moderator and an approval of the element is received. The element is stored with elements attributes that can include a comment, a rating, and a label identifying a sub-topic of the community topic. A search request is received and the element is outputted in response to the request. A rating and a comment on the element is received and stored in the element attributes. Approval of the comment is received. In some embodiments, points may be awarded to a user for participating in the community and the user'"'"'s user level may be modified based on the points of the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a community-based content environment, the method comprising:

providing an element associated with content related to a community topic to a moderator, wherein the moderator is at least one user that is assigned a level allowing access to at least most community tools available for use in a community and that is charged with managing at least one of (i) elements of the community or (ii) users of the community;

receiving an instruction from the moderator to include the element in the community-based content environment;

receiving element attributes associated with the element, the element attributes comprising a comment from a user, a rating, search properties, and a label identifying a sub-topic of the community topic, wherein the search properties are associated with at least one of the content, the rating, the comment, or the label;

performing, by processor executing code stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a content management function after receiving an instruction from the moderator to perform the content management function, the content management function comprising modifying the element or element attributes;

receiving a search request regarding the community topic from a software application over a network, the search request comprising an identification of at least one of the search properties to search;

outputting the element and at least part of the element attributes to the software application over the network in response to the search request; and

disconnecting the software application from the community-based content environment, wherein the element and at least part of the element attributes are adapted to be accessed by the software application after disconnecting from the community-based content environment.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein modifying the element or element attributes comprises at least one of:

deleting the element from the community-based content environment;

editing the element;

deleting the comment from the community-based content environment;

adding the comment to the community-based content environment;

or

modifying the search properties.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the label is selected from a plurality of labels on a pre-set label list, the plurality of labels being received from the moderator.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving an instruction to remove at least one of the plurality of labels from the pre-set label list.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an identification of a community sub-topic for which a sub-topic element is needed; and

receiving the sub-topic element for the identified community sub-topic.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which program code is stored for providing a community-based content environment, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

program code for providing an element associated with content related to a community topic to a moderator, wherein the moderator is at least one user that is assigned a level allowing access to at least most community tools available for use in a community and that is charged with managing at least one of (i) elements of the community or (ii) users of the community;

program code for receiving an instruction from the moderator to include the element in the community-based content environment;

program code for receiving element attributes associated with the element, the element attributes comprising a comment from a user, a rating, search properties, and a label identifying a sub-topic of the community topic, wherein the search properties are associated with at least one of the content, the rating, the comment, or the label;

program code for performing a content management function after receiving an instruction from the moderator to perform the content management function, the content management function comprising modifying the element or element attributes;

program code for receiving a search request for information regarding the community topic from a software application over a network, the search request comprising an identification of at least one of the search properties to search;

program code for outputting the element and at least part of the element attributes to the software application over the network in response to the search request; and

program code for disconnecting the software application from the community-based content environment, wherein the element and at least part of the element attributes are adapted to be accessed by the software application after disconnecting from the community-based content environment.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein program code for modifying the element or element attributes comprises at least one of:

program code for deleting the element from the community-based content environment;

program code for editing the element;

program code for deleting the comment from the community-based content environment;

program code for adding the comment to the community-based content environment;

or

program code for modifying the search properties.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the label is selected from a plurality of labels on a pre-set label list, the plurality of labels being received from a moderator.