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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin G. Darnell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin Christopher Haugh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing content, performed by a client system is provided in which execution of a mark-all-read command associated with a specified stream to which a user of the client system has subscribed is detected. The specified stream comprises two or more content feeds, and wherein each content feed comprises a set of content items published by a respective publication source. A time of execution of the mark-all-read command is recorded. There is displayed content items associated with the specified stream in accordance with a criterion that content items having associated timestamps dated prior to the recorded time of execution are displayed in a visually distinctive format from content items having associated timestamps dated after the recorded time of execution. The displaying includes determining which content items associated with the specified stream have associated timestamps dated prior to the recorded time of execution.