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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Donald R. Beaver, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Georgios Sofianatos, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kang Tu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amogh Mahapatra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark A. Gingrich, San Jose, CA (US);
Pushkaraj Bhirud, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dominic J. Hughes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Justin W. Sung, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Martin J. Murrett, Portland, OR (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a mobile or computer reader application that obtains articles or other computer files from a central database and displays the articles to a user of the device. In addition to providing the articles to the reader application, an article providing system may also determine the quality or popularity of particular articles and provide the most popular articles to users of the system. In one embodiment, the system may receive one or more anonymous interaction metrics from one or more devices connected to the system. The anonymous interaction metrics may be associated with a particular article and provide some indication of a user's engagement with the article. The system utilizes these interaction metrics or measurements to set or adjust a score or ranking associated with the particular article. The score may then be utilized by the system to rank the article in relation to other articles available through the system to provide the most popular or highest ranked articles to users of the system.