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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2006
Applicants:

Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Union City, CA (US);

John Thrall, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ruofei Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sai Surya Kiran Evani, Bangalore, IN;

Inventors:

Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Union City, CA (US);

John Thrall, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ruofei Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sai Surya Kiran Evani, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more channels for the organization of content items. A method according to one embodiment comprises selecting a content item and one or more items of metadata for the selected content item. A determination is made to determine if the selected content item should be associated with a given channel on the basis of the metadata. A channel is generated on the basis of the determination, with the selected content item organized in association with the channel.


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