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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Applicants:
Benjamin G. Darnell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin Christopher Haugh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Benjamin G. Darnell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin Christopher Haugh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method quantifies unread content items for a stream subscribed to by a user. The stream includes a time-ordered list of content items from two or more content feeds. Each content feed includes a set of content items published by a respective publication source. The method includes determining a count of content items having an unread status in accordance with read state information stored for the user with respect to the stream, and transmitting the count to a client system for display.