Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jamil Valliani

Krysta Marie Svore

Lucretia Henrica Vanderwende

Deqing Chen

Ken Lo

Methods and computer-readable media are provided for presenting on a website a single video stream that includes a plurality of preview videos directed toward a particular category of interest to a user. Informational items, such as news stories, that have associated preview videos are selected from a database. A preview video for each of the informational items is then algorithmically determined using, for instance, a ranking system. The ranking system may be based on a variety of heuristics, which may indicate popularity, importance, reliability, or relevance of the specific preview video. The single video stream is presented on the website such that the preview videos can be viewed as an assembled sequence of videos. Once an indication has been received to initiate play of the video stream, the preview videos play without requiring any user interaction.

Presenting an assembled sequence of preview videos

Methods and computer-readable media are provided for summarizing the content of a plurality of documents and presenting the results of such multiple-document summarization to a user in such a way that the user is able to quickly and easily discern what, if any, unique information each document contains. Each sentence of each document is assigned a score based upon the perceived importance of the information contained therein. The sentences receiving the highest scores are then compared with one another to identify and remove any duplicate sentences. The remaining high-scoring sentences are extracted from the corresponding documents and presented to the user, for instance, in a bulleted list format. The user can then simply scan the list and can quickly and easily discern the unique information contained in each document.

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