IP Library Granted Patent US 8,756,228
Granted Patent B2
US 8,756,228 · App. 11/357,293 · Granted Jun 17, 2014

Method and apparatus for creating contextualized feeds

Inventor: James Edward Pitkow (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Moreover Acquisition Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,756,228
App. No.
11/357,293
Granted
Jun 17, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized feeds. The method of generating contextualized feeds comprises receiving context data from a user. The method further comprises generating contextualized feeds based on the context data, as the context data is received. The method, in one embodiment, includes receiving a selection of one or more of the contextualized feeds from user, the selected feeds to be displayed with content entered by the user.

Claims (49)

1. A method comprising:

receiving context data from a user in the form of created content, wherein the context data received from the user is received in pseudo-real time;

generating contextual feeds based on the context data as the context data is received;

receiving a selection of one or more of the contextual feeds from the user, wherein the contextual feeds based on the received context data are generated in pseudo-real time;

restricting the selected one or more feeds by the one or more factors;

encoding the restriction in a universal resource locator code (URL) associated with the one or more feeds; and

associating the selected one or more contextual feeds with the created content, wherein when the created content is viewed, the associated one or more contextual feeds are displayed, and wherein the user is provided control over the feeds associated with the content.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving at least one of:

a user command, the user command commanding an action of a server; and

a restriction request restricting the selected one or more contextual feeds by one or more factors.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the factors include at least one of a headline, source, category, stock ticker, keyword, source, region, language, genre, publisher, author, duplicate filter, sub-requests, search results, data, geolocation.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context data is in the form of created content selected from created content consisting of one or more of: text, audio and visual data entered or added by the user, and metadata associated with the text, the audio, and the visual data.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the context data further includes preferences of the user as to the contextual feeds.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

updating the contextual feeds upon receiving additional context data from the user.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request for content containing the selected one or more feeds;

performing a search on a database of available feeds based on criteria associated with the selected one or more feeds; and

presenting results of the search along with the content to a content consumer.

8. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

receiving a request for the selected one or more restricted contextual when a content consumer consumes the content;

recalling the selected one or more feeds stored in the memory;

checking the validity of the recalled feeds; and

returning valid feeds, to the content consumer.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user is a publisher for publishing content including feeds to a website.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving context data from the publisher as a user of the publisher is entering content into the publisher.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

the user monitoring the interactions of a user of a computing system; and

transforming data corresponding to the monitored interactions into context data.

12. An article of manufacture including one or more physical computer-readable storage media that embody a plurality of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors in a processing system, causes the one or more processors to performing a method, the method comprising:

generating contextual feeds based on context data in the form of created content data the created content is received from a user, wherein the context data received from the user is received in pseudo-real time;

receiving a selection of the one or more feeds from the user, wherein the contextual feeds based on the received context data are generated in pseudo-real time;

restricting the selected one or more feeds by the one or more factors;

encoding the restriction in a universal resource locator code (URL) associated with the one or more feeds; and

associating the selected one or more feeds with the created content received from the user so that when a content consumer requests the created content to display, the associated one or more feeds are displayed.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 12 , the method further comprising:

receiving a request, from the user, to restrict the selected one or more feeds by one or more factors including at least one of a headline, source, category, stock ticker, keyword, source, region, language, genre, publisher, author, duplicate filter, sub-requests, search results, data, geolocation.

14. The article of manufacture of claim 13 , the method further comprising:

receiving a request form a content consumer for content associated with the one or more restricted feeds; recalling locked feeds from the memory;

recalling restriction factors from the memory to generate available restricted feeds by performing a search on a database of available feeds based on the factors recalled from memory checking the validity of the locked feeds and the available restricted feeds; and

returning the valid feeds to the content consumer.

15. The article of manufacture of claim 12 , wherein the user is a publisher for publishing content including feeds to a website.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 12 , the method further comprising:

receiving context data from the publisher as a user of the publisher is entering content into the publisher.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 12 , the method further comprising:

monitoring the interactions of a user of a computing system; and

transforming data corresponding to the monitored interactions into context data.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 6, 2016
From: MOREOVER ACQUISTION CORPORATION
To: EBAY INC.
Reel/Frame 038201/0749 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 7, 2009
From: VERISIGN, INC.
To: MOREOVER ACQUISITION CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022654/0814 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 16, 2006
From: PITKOW, JAMES EDWARD
To: VERISIGN, INC.
Reel/Frame 017577/0606 →
Continuity (1)
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