Educational hub
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1. A method for facilitating collaboration between users comprising:
- obtaining, from a plurality of user devices;
monitoring information corresponding to monitored interactions between a plurality of users and at least one electronic resource; and
content identified respectively by each of the plurality of users as relevant to the at least one electronic resource;
indexing, on a server system, the content based on the monitoring information;
parsing content from a portion of an electronic resource being displayed by a particular user'"'"'s device, wherein the content is parsed into different grammatical parts-of-speech elements;
transmitting a subset of the parsed content including some, but fewer than all, of the different grammatical parts-of-speech elements from the particular user'"'"'s device to the server system;
identifying indexed content relevant to the particular user based on the monitoring information and the subset of the parsed content received from the particular user'"'"'s device; and
displaying, on the particular user'"'"'s device, content relevant to the particular user, wherein the displayed content includes content identified by another user as relevant to the at least one electronic resource.
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Abstract
In an example implementation, a global educational hub provides academic users with collaboration tools to exchange and build on the accumulated knowledge of subjects of interest. Users are provided with a central location to collect, categorize, and rank resources, and store notes and comments related to a particular section of an electronic textbook being studied. Users also can refer to online resources, such as web services, multimedia, website pages, newsgroups, search engine results, RSS, any other current and future external resources, and other user'"'"'s notes.
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30 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating collaboration between users comprising:
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obtaining, from a plurality of user devices; monitoring information corresponding to monitored interactions between a plurality of users and at least one electronic resource; and content identified respectively by each of the plurality of users as relevant to the at least one electronic resource; indexing, on a server system, the content based on the monitoring information; parsing content from a portion of an electronic resource being displayed by a particular user'"'"'s device, wherein the content is parsed into different grammatical parts-of-speech elements; transmitting a subset of the parsed content including some, but fewer than all, of the different grammatical parts-of-speech elements from the particular user'"'"'s device to the server system; identifying indexed content relevant to the particular user based on the monitoring information and the subset of the parsed content received from the particular user'"'"'s device; and displaying, on the particular user'"'"'s device, content relevant to the particular user, wherein the displayed content includes content identified by another user as relevant to the at least one electronic resource. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system comprising:
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one or more processors; and a computer program product encoded on a tangible, non-transitory storage medium, the product comprising computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising; obtaining, from a plurality of user devices; monitoring information corresponding to monitored interactions between a plurality of users and at least one electronic resource; and content identified respectively by each of the plurality of users as relevant to the at least one electronic resource; indexing the content based on the monitoring information; receiving a subset of content that was parsed into different grammatical parts-of-speech elements, the content representing a portion of an electronic resource being displayed by a particular user'"'"'s device, wherein the subset of the content includes some, but fewer than all, of the grammatical parts-of-speech elements; identifying indexed content relevant to a particular user based on the monitoring information and the subset of parsed content received from the particular user'"'"'s device; and transmiting, to each user'"'"'s device, the content identified as relevant to that user, wherein the transmitted content includes content identified by another user as relevant to the at least one electronic resource. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A system apparatus comprising:
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one or more processors; and a computer program product encoded on a tangible, non-transitory storage medium, the product comprising computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising; monitoring interactions between a user and at least one electronic resource; generating monitoring information based on the monitored interactions; receiving, from the user, content identified by the user as relevant to the at least one electronic resource; parsing content from a portion of an electronic resource being displayed by the apparatus, wherein the content is parsed into different grammatical parts-of-speech elements; transmitting the monitoring information and a subset of the parsed content including some, but fewer than all, of the different grammatical parts-of-speech elements to a server; receiving content relevant to the user from the server, wherein the content relevant to the user is identified based on the monitoring information and the subset of the parsed content received and the subset of the parsed content by the server from the apparatus; and a display device configured to display the content relevant to the user, wherein the displayed content includes content identified by another user as relevant to the at least one electronic resource. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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