International Business Machines Corporation

Google Inc.

Maurice B Shore

Julio Estrada

Miguel A Estrada

Sami Mohammed Shalabi

Cassandra Lynn Doll

Matthew Mckeon

Abraham Michael Yaar

Jokubas M Zukerman

Charles Robert Hill

William Frederick Kiefer, Iii

Joseph Anthony Russo

Mehul Agarwal

James Reilly

Thomas Schneider

Carl Kraenzel

Imad Jureidini

Charles Edward Garofalo

Catherine M Duffy

Melissa Youngju Byun

Terry June Linsey

Matthew Mehall McKeon

Patrick J Shaughnessy

Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. Publisher input is received regarding acceptable content item types and sizes for inclusion with other content in a publication. Publisher input is received regarding how often content items are to appear in the publication. Identification is received of a user device that will render the publication as an article. The other content is evaluated including formatting the article as a single scrolling page, including defining logical pages with boundaries determined by formatted content blocks and based on display capabilities of the user device. Based on the evaluating, content items are selected for presentation along with the other content when presenting the article on the user device, including dynamically determining a number, types and placement of content items based on the logical pages and properties of the user device.

Dynamic insertion of content items into resources

A client user accesses content that is primarily textual in nature. A status of the user related to the content is detected, and a notification is provided for display to the user that is based on the user status. The notification is located in a notification area, and obscures at least part of the content, which is located in a content area. The user performs a gesture referencing the content area to dismiss the notification. In some cases, the gesture involves a gesture that the user would normally make to perform an action related to the content even if the notification were not displayed. The notification is then removed from display, and the action related to the content is simultaneously implemented.

Detecting user gestures for dismissing electronic notifications

A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for displaying content are provided. In an embodiment, content for display within a tiled interface and a screen size for display of the tiled interface are determined. Grid segments of the tiled interface are determined based on the content and the screen size. The grid segments are grouped into tiles of the tiled interface based on a relative importance of the articles. The content is displayed on the tiled interface within the tiles of the tiled interface.

Edition grid layout

A magazine distribution system retrieves digital content associated with a digital magazine published by a publisher by using a plurality of feeds. The magazine distribution system retrieves an issue feed from a publisher of a digital magazine. The issue feed includes information about an issue of the digital magazine. The magazine distribution system analyzes the issue feed to retrieve an identifier identifying a section feed published by the publisher. The magazine distribution system retrieves the section feed from the publisher using the identifier identifying the section feed and analyzes the retrieved section feed to identify information about the section of the digital magazine and a digital content item to be included in the section of the issue of the digital magazine. The magazine distribution system formats the issue of the digital magazine and presents the formatted issue of the digital magazine to a user.

Digital magazine distribution using feeds

An personalized electronic magazine system includes an indexing module that stores topics related to various items available via a database. A user profile manager determines topics of interest to a particular user, and a recommendation generator uses the topic information from the indexing module and the topic information from the profile manager to generate recommended content to present to the user.

Personalized electronic magazine

A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for generating a magazine edition menu, is provided. Dimensions of a display screen on a mobile device are determined. Based on the dimensions, the size of an edition preview pane is determined, where the edition preview pane displays multiple images from the magazine editions. Based on the dimensions the size of a thumbnail section is determined, the thumbnail section displays a plurality of thumbnail editions associated with each magazine edition. Based on the size of the thumbnail section and a number of magazine editions, a layout of the plurality of thumbnail editions on a display screen is determined.

Presentation of the media content on mobile devices

Methods and systems generate trending search magazines. Trending topics may be identified from news servers. A search magazine edition may be generated for a trending topic. The edition has a search magazine format, including a news section, a user-generated media section and an about section. News and article servers are searched for articles on the trending topic. Media is searched for on the trending topic. Descriptive information is searched for on the trending topic. The search results of these automatic searches are transformed into the search magazine format of the edition and provided for display in a current display view of a mobile device.

Trending search magazines

Described embodiments enable the presentation to a user of news articles or other content that is of likely interest to a user and that is geographically relevant to the user's location or region of interest. A news delivery system includes an ingest module that assigns topics and locations to available content, a profile engine that determines profile topics and geographic locations that a particular user finds relevant, and a news delivery module that selects content for the user based on the operation of the ingest module and the profile engine. In one embodiment, the profile engine performs decay processing to remove stale topics and locations from a user's profile. In related aspects, the profile engine maintains multiple profiles for the user.

Recommended news edition on a map using geo entities

A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for distributing and accessing media content of a magazine edition are provided. A distributing user selects content to distribute and selects a distribution application. The distribution application generates and transmits to a receiving user a distribution message that includes a link with information about the location of the content and how to display it. The receiving user receives the distribution message and uses the location information to access the content. The content may be accessed in a variety of ways depending on the type of hardware that is used by the receiving user and choices made by the receiving user.

Viral flow of the media content across client devices

Methods and systems for providing magazine edition recommendations are provided. Categories associated with retrieved magazine edition articles are analyzed. A magazine edition profile is generated for each magazine edition based on the categories for each of the retrieved articles of the corresponding magazine edition. The categories of magazine edition profiles are compared to categories of a profile of a user, wherein the user profile is based on categories of articles viewed by the user. A magazine edition recommendation based on the comparing is provided for display to the user. The edition recommendation may be a link or section of shown in a view of magazine edition content on a mobile device of the user. A user may be provided a convenient way to subscribe to the recommended magazine edition. A personalized magazine edition recommendation of highest ranked articles may also be provided.

Magazine edition recommendations

Embodiments include methods and systems for generating trending search magazines. Trending topics may be identified from news servers. A search magazine edition may be generated for a trending topic. The edition has a search magazine format, including a news section, a user-generated media section and an about section. News and article servers are searched for articles on the trending topic. Media is searched for on the trending topic. Descriptive information is searched for on the trending topic. The search results of these automatic searches are transformed into the search magazine format of the edition and provided for display in a current display view of a mobile device.

A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for displaying edition content of a magazine edition are provided. In an embodiment, a screen selection corresponding to a size of a screen upon which to render a magazine edition is received, the magazine edition including a content page with one or more articles. A grid with grid segments is calculated for the selected screen size. A layout for the content page is determined, the layout including a tile of one or more of the grid segments corresponding to each of the articles. Content associated with each of the articles is determined. The content of each of the articles is arranged for display within its corresponding tile. The content page of the magazine edition is displayed, the displayed page including the articles arranged for display within its corresponding tile.

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Maurice B Shore