Systems and methods for content processing

• US 9,465,849 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2014
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• 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, Lu, Qichu
• Primary Examiner(s): Kerzhner, Aleksandr
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tamaru, Michael K
• Application Number:
  US14/319,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3323 using document space presentation or visualization, e.g. category, hierarchy or range presentation and selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/08 Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry by merging two or more sets of carriers in ordered sequence G06F7/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a client computing device, a content digest comprising a task list comprising a plurality of selectable tasks, each selectable task comprising reading at least a portion of a respective one of a first plurality of automatically summarized articles, each article of the first plurality corresponding to a respective topic and comprising a plurality of content items, at least two of the plurality of content items included in the article are of different content formats and originate from different content sources;

generating, by the client computing device, a display of the content digest;

receiving, by the client computing device, a first user gesture and a second user gesture; and

altering, by the client computing device, the display in response to the first user gesture and the second user gesture, the altering comprising;

in response to the first user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed headline to a respective automatically summarized article of the first plurality; and

in response to the second user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed automatically summarized article of the first plurality to show a different article of the first plurality;

monitoring, by the client computing device, the user'"'"'s progress in completing the plurality of selectable tasks, the completion of a selectable task being recorded in response to the user'"'"'s reading of at least a portion of each of the first plurality of articles; and

displaying, by the client computing device, bonus content upon the completion of the plurality of selectable tasks, the bonus content comprising additional content associated with one or more of the first plurality of automatically summarized articles.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically receiving, by the client computing device, a new content digest upon expiration of a predetermined time period, the new content digest comprising a second plurality of automatically summarized articles different from the first plurality of automatically summarized articles.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the second plurality of articles comprises at least two content items not included in the first plurality of articles, at least two of the at least two content items included in an automatically summarized article of the second plurality of articles are of different content formats.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the content digest and the new content digest are received in a single day.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the content digest and the new content digest are received on two consecutive days.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content digest comprises a cover page that further comprises a plurality of summaries respectively summarizing each of the first plurality of articles, each of the plurality of summaries comprising a respective headline.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of content items of one of the first plurality of articles comprises three or more content items.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the three or more content items comprises three content items and each of the three content items are of different formats and each of the three content items are from three different content sources.

9. The method of claim 8, the three content items comprise an image content item, a text content item and a video content item.

10. The method of claim 1, displaying the bonus content further comprises:

displaying, by the client computing device, a trivia question associated with one or more of the first plurality of articles; and

displaying, by the client computing device, additional bonus content upon receiving an answer to the trivia question.

26. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

notifying, by the client device, the user regarding availability of the content digest.

27. The method of claim 1, the first gesture being different from the second gesture.

28. The method of claim 27, the first gesture causes a selection of the currently displayed headline by the processor.

29. The method of claim 27, the second gesture is a swipe gesture.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising processor executable instructions for:

receiving a content digest comprising a task list comprising a plurality of selectable tasks, each of the selectable tasks comprising reading at least a portion of a respective one of a first plurality of automatically summarized articles, each article of the first plurality corresponding to a respective topic and comprising a plurality of content items, at least two of the plurality of content items included in the article are of different content formats and originate from different content sources;

generating a display of the content digest to a user;

receiving a first user gesture and a second user gesture; and

altering, by the client computing device, the display in response to the first user gesture and the second user gesture, the altering comprising;

in response to the first user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed headline to a respective automatically summarized article of the first plurality; and

in response to the second user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed automatically summarized article of the first plurality to show a different article of the first plurality;

monitoring the user'"'"'s progress in completing the plurality of selectable tasks, the completion of a selectable task being recorded in response to the user'"'"'s reading of at least a portion of of each of the first plurality of articles; and

displaying bonus content upon the completion of the plurality of selectable tasks, bonus content upon the completion of the plurality of selectable tasks, the bonus content comprising additional content associated with one or more of the first plurality of automatically summarized articles.

12. The non-transitory medium of claim 11, further comprising:

automatically receiving a new content digest upon expiration of a predetermined time period, the new content digest comprising a second plurality of automatically summarized articles different from the first plurality of articles.

13. The non-transitory medium of claim 12, wherein each automatically summarized article of the second plurality of articles comprises at least two content items not included in the first plurality of articles, at least two of the at least two content items included in an automatically summarized article of the second plurality of articles are of different content formats.

14. The non-transitory medium of claim 11, wherein the content digest comprises a cover page that further comprises at least one downloadable image and a plurality of summaries, the plurality of summaries respectively corresponding to each of the first plurality of articles, each of the plurality of summaries comprises a respective headline.

15. The non-transitory medium of claim 11, wherein the at least two content items of one of the first plurality of articles comprises three or more content items.

16. The non-transitory medium of claim 15, wherein the three or more content items comprises three content items and each of the three content items are of different formats and each of the three content items are from three different content sources.

17. The non-transitory medium of claim 16, the three content items comprise an image content item, a text content item and a video content item.

18. A computing device, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising processor-executable logic executable for;

receiving a content digest comprising a task list comprising a plurality of selectable tasks, each of the selectable tasks comprising reading at least a portion of a respective one of a first plurality of automatically summarized articles, each article of the first plurality corresponding to a respective topic and comprising a plurality of content items, at least two of the plurality of content items included in the article of the plurality of articles are of different content formats and originate from different content sources;

generating a display of the content digest to a user;

receiving a first user gesture and a second user gesture; and

altering the display in response to the first user gesture and the second user gesture, the altering comprising;

in response to the first user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed headline to a respective automatically summarized article of the first plurality; and

in response to the second user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed automatically summarized article of the first plurality to show a different article of the first plurality;

monitoring the user'"'"'s progress in completing the plurality of selectable tasks, the completion of a selectable task being recorded in response to the user'"'"'s reading of at least a portion of each of the first plurality of articles; and

displaying bonus content upon the completion of the plurality of selectable tasks, the bonus content comprising additional content associated with one or more of the first plurality of automatically summarized articles.

19. The computing device of claim 18, the non-transitory storage medium further comprising processor-executable logic for:

automatically receiving a new content digest upon expiration of a predetermined time period, the new content digest comprising a second plurality of automatically summarized articles different from the first plurality of articles.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein each automatically summarized article of the second plurality of articles comprises at least two content items not included in the first plurality of articles, at least two of the at least two content items included in an article of the second plurality of articles are of different content formats.

21. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the content digest comprises a cover page that further comprises a plurality of summaries respectively summarizing each of the first plurality of articles, each of the plurality of summaries comprises a respective headline.

22. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the plurality of content items of one of the plurality of articles comprises three or more content items.

23. The computing device of claim 22, wherein the three or more content items comprises three content items and each of the three content items are of different formats and each of the three content items are from three different content sources.

24. The computing device of claim 23, the three content items comprise an image content item, a text content item and a video content item.

25. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the content digest comprises a cover page comprising a downloadable image.

30. A method comprising:

receiving, by a client computing device, a periodically updated content digest comprising a cover page and a task list, the task list comprising a plurality of selectable tasks, each of the selectable tasks comprising reading at least a portion of a respective one of a first plurality of automatically summarized articles, each automatically summarized article of the first plurality corresponding to a respective topic and comprising a plurality of content items, at least two of the plurality of content items included in the article are of different content formats and originate from different content sources;

generating, by the client computing device an initial display of the content digest wherein the initial display shows to a user, the cover page comprising at least one image and at least one user-selectable headline respectively corresponding to at least one article of the first plurality;

receiving, by the client computing device, a first user gesture and a second user gesture; and

altering, by the processor, the display in response to the first user gesture and the second user gesture, the altering comprising;

in response to the first user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed headline to a respective automatically summarized article of the first plurality; and

in response to the second user gesture, altering the display from a currently displayed automatically summarized article of the first plurality to show a different article of the first plurality;

monitoring, by the client computing device, the user'"'"'s progress in completing the plurality of selectable tasks, the completion of a selectable task being recorded in response to the user'"'"'s reading of at least a portion of each of the first plurality of articles; and

displaying, by the client computing device, bonus content upon the completion of the plurality of selectable tasks, the bonus content comprising additional content associated with one or more of the first plurality of automatically summarized articles.