Google Inc.

Hunter Everett Walk

Kuan Loong Yong

James Robert Patterson

Jim Patterson

Nathan Peter Lucash

Shuman Ghosemajumder

Chade-Meng Tan

Jeffery Eddings

Jerry Felker

A content hosting system allows content providers to create channels of video content and make them available to users in a marketplace. Users can search or browse for channels of interest, and selectively subscribe to channels. Users can also pay for the right to view premium videos in each channel. The system ranks channels according to the value provided. Generally, users will seek out and subscribe to the highest ranked channels that provide the greatest value. The ranking function allows different providers to compete for the subscriptions of users. Providers can observe their channel's reception in the market by analyzing rankings and usage statistics to adjust channels to maximize channel performance. The system operator can also create bundled channels containing videos from multiple providers, and the resulting subscription revenue can be distributed to the various providers of the videos in the channel.

Self-service channel marketplace

Content owners (e.g., Website publishers) are provided with a simple mechanism to automatically summarize and display information (news, images, maps, etc.) related to inferred interests of a user or users visiting their Website. The targeting can driven by a variety of mechanisms including, for example, an automated contextual understanding of the content of the Web page, profile-based information derived from personal data supplied by, or inferred from actions by, the user visiting the Website, location-targeted information (e.g., inferred by the Website visitor's current geography), etc. 'Related Content Units' may be used to help content owners render useful, related, content by allowing for a variety of targeting methods to gather related pieces of Internet content and present them integrated into an HTML iFrame or a JavaScript/XML feed which can be easily integrated by the Website publisher onto the Web pages of their Website.

Rendering contextual related content with a document, such as on a web page for example

Systems and methods for triggering actions are set forth. According to one embodiment, a method comprising determining at least one triggering condition associated with an article, correlating the triggering condition with information associated with a user, and providing the user with a notification relating to the triggering condition is described.

Methods and systems for triggering actions

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Hunter Everett Walk