PRESENTING CONTENT ITEMS SHARED WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS

• US 20160028782A1
• Filed: 10/05/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kazan, Wissam, Font, Amanda, Akmal, Mona, Grossberg, Samuel DeKoven, Penov, Francislav P., Truelove, Benjamin Nicholas, Chandrasekaran, Vasudha, Bahrainwala, Shazaan
• Granted Patent: US 10,893,082 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Within a social network, a user may establish a set of contacts who share with the user various content items and comments related thereto. However, these content items are often hosted by a content source outside of the social network, and the user may have to transition to the content source to view the content item, and then transition back to the social network to submit a comment. Instead, a device may monitor the social network to record shared content items. When the user requests a presentation of the content source, the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user may be included in the presentation. The presentation of the content source may also accept comments from the user regarding a content item, and send the comments to the social network where the content item was shared with the user.

Claims

1. A system configured to present to a user content items shared with the user within a social network, respective content items hosted by a content source, the system implemented on a device having a processor and comprising:

a content item receiving component configured to, upon receiving from the user a request for a presentation of a content source, receive shared content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user within the social network; and

a content source presenting component configured to, upon receiving from the user a request for a presentation of a content source;

generate a presentation of the content source including the shared content items, and

present the presentation of the content source to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, the content item receiving component configured to receive the content items hosted by a content source by:

notifying a content item server of the content source, and

receiving from the content item server the shared content items.

3. The system of claim 1:

the request for a presentation comprising a request to render the content source in a web browser; and

the content source presenting component configured to integrate the content items into the content source rendered in the web browser.

4. The system of claim 1, the content source presenting component configured to remove from the presentation shared content items that have been previously presented to the user.

5. The system of claim 1:

the content source presenting component configured to generate the presentation of the content source including a content item list comprising preview versions of the content items hosted by the content source and shared with the user within a social network; and

the system comprising;

a content item viewing component configured to, upon receiving from the user a selection of a selected content item in the content item list;

request the content item from the content source, and

present the content item to the user.

6. The system of claim 1:

at least one content item shared with the user on at least two social networks; and

the content source presenting component configured to aggregate the content item shared with the user on the at least two social networks.

7. The system of claim 6, the content item presenting component configured to, upon receiving from the user a request to filter the content items shared with the user on a selected social network, filter the presentation to include only the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user on the selected social network.

8. The system of claim 1, the instructions configured to, upon receiving a content item shared with the user shared within a social network and hosted by a content source while presenting the content source to the user, supplement the presentation of the content source with the content item.

9. The system of claim 1:

at least one content item shared with the user within a social network comprising a comment; and

the content source presenting component configured to present the at least one comment with the content item.

10. The system of claim 9:

at least one content item comprising a web page portion of a web page;

the comment associated with the web page portion of the web page; and

the content source presenting component configured to;

present the web page adjusted to display the web page portion, and

present the comment associated with the web page portion.

11. The system of claim 9, the content source presenting component configured to present the at least one comment by:

for content items associated with at least one comment, presenting with the content item a comment indicator; and

upon receiving from the user a selection of the comment indicator, presenting at least one comment associated with the content item.

12. The system of claim 1, comprising:

a content item sharing component configured to, upon receiving from the user a request to share within a social network a content item hosted by the content source, send the content item to the social network.

13. The system of claim 1, comprising:

a content item responding component configured to, upon receiving from the user a response to a content item, send the response associated with the content item to the social network.

14. The system of claim 13:

the content items shared with the user on at least two social networks; and

the content item responding component configured to send a response to the social network by;

identifying at least one identified social network where the content item has been shared with the user, and

sending the response associated with the content item to the at least one identified social network.

15. The method of claim 13:

the content item shared with the user on at least two social networks; and

the content item responding component configured to, upon receiving from the user a response to a content item to be posted on a selected social network, send the response associated with the content item to the selected social network.

16. A method of presenting to a user content items shared with the user within a social network, respective content items hosted by a content source, the method utilizing a device having a processor and comprising:

executing on the processor instructions configured to;

retrieve from the social network the content items shared with the user; and

upon receiving from the user a request for a presentation of a content source;

retrieve the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user within the social network, and

send the content items to the user for inclusion in the presentation of the content source.

17. The method of claim 16, the instructions configured to, upon receiving from a social network an update to a content item while presenting to the user the content source hosting the content item, send the update to the user for inclusion in the presentation.

18. The method of claim 16, the instructions configured to discard content items older than a content item duration.

19. The method of claim 16:

at least one content item associated with a comment; and

the instructions configured retrieve the content items from the social network by;

polling the social network to retrieve content items at a first frequency; and

polling the social network to retrieve comments associated with the content items at a second frequency that is higher than the first frequency.

20. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed on a processor of a device, present to a user content items shared with the user within a social network, respective content items hosted by a content source, by:

upon receiving from the user a request for a presentation of a content source;

notifying a content item server of the content source, and

receiving from the content item server the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user within the social network;

upon receiving from the user a request for a presentation of a content source;

generating a presentation of the content source including the shared content items, the presentation comprising;

a primary presentation of the content source;

a secondary presentation comprising a content item list comprising preview versions of the shared content items, the secondary presentation positioned peripherally with respect to the primary presentation and comprising the shared content items that have not been previously presented to the user; and

for content items associated with at least one comment, a comment indicator;

presenting the presentation of the content source to the user;

upon receiving from the user a selection of a selected content item in the content item list;

requesting the content item from the content source, and

presenting the content item to the user;

upon receiving from the user a selection of the comment indicator, presenting at least one comment associated with the content item;

upon receiving from the user a request to filter the content items shared with the user on a selected social network, filtering the presentation to include only the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user on the selected social network;

upon receiving from a social network an update to a content item while presenting to the user the content source hosting the content item, supplementing the presentation of the content source with the update to the content item;

upon receiving a content item shared with the user shared within a social network and hosted by a content source while presenting the content source to the user, supplementing the presentation of the content source with the content item;

upon receiving from the user a response to a content item, send the response associated with the content item to the social network; and

upon receiving from the user a request to share within a social network a content item hosted by the content source, sending the content item to the social network.