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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Furu Wei, Beijing, CN;
Ming Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Yang Liu, Beijing, CN;
Ziqiang Cao, Beijing, CN;
Shaohan Huang, Beijing, CN;
Li Dong, Beijing, CN;
Lei Cui, Beijing, CN;
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for providing a comments-centered news reader. Configurations allow live comments to be presented along with the news or similar website content. While a user scrolls up and down in a browser presenting a news article on the user's computer device (e.g., mobile device), linked comments are shown in a selected region. The displayed comments automatically change to adapt to what parts (paragraphs, sentences) of the news article that user is currently reading. At the same time, users can publish their own comments without having to proceed to a separate section of the browser, thus saving the viewer actions and improving the user's experience. The user's system or a remote server records the comments along with the article or the place users are in the article when the comment was entered.