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Comment-centered news reader

  • US 10,699,078 B2
  • Filed: 05/29/2015
  • Issued: 06/30/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, at a computing device connected to a network, content comprising a plurality of text segments, the content originating from one or more content sources connected to the network;

    receiving, at the computing device, a plurality of comments previously associated with the content, the comments having origination at one of the computing device or other computing devices connected to the network;

    presenting a portion of the received content including a first text segment in a first section of a display device of the computer device;

    determining one or more comments of the plurality of received comments to present based at least on a topic identified from the first text segment presented in the first section of the display device, wherein a topic identified from the one or more comments is linked to the topic identified from the first text segment presented in the first section of the display device and wherein the topic identified from the one or more comments is linked to a plurality of text segments within the content;

    determining whether the number of comments linked to the topic identified from the first text segment exceeds a threshold number; and

    if the number of comments exceeds the threshold number, presenting the one or more comments in a second section of the display device by automatically scrolling, within the second section, the one or more comments linked to the topic identified from the first text segment.

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