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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2009
Raman Narayanan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajenda Vishnumurty, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ming Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Russell Songco, Seattle, WA (US);
George Moromisato, Seattle, WA (US);
Raman Narayanan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajenda Vishnumurty, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ming Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Russell Songco, Seattle, WA (US);
George Moromisato, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
When presenting a news feed (e.g., statuses of contacts in a social media network), it may be inefficient to display the data items in a single column according to a single filter, such as a designated group of contacts. Rather, from the data feed, a set of at least two data subfeeds may be generated based on different filters, and the at least two data subfeeds may be currently presented to the user (e.g., as two or more vertically aligned columns, each presenting a different set of data items based on a different filter.) The user may prefer the concurrent presentation due to the contextual separation of the data items according to different filters, and may more easily administrate the filters and groupings; e.g., dragging data items from one column to another column may alter the filters to achieve a more preferred sorting of data items in future presentations.