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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:
Dec. 16, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2006
Applicants:

Micah Dubinko, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joseph Magnani, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jasmine Novak, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ravi Kumar, Berkeley, CA (US);

Prabhakar Raghavan, Saratoga, CA (US);

Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Micah Dubinko, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joseph Magnani, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jasmine Novak, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ravi Kumar, Berkeley, CA (US);

Prabhakar Raghavan, Saratoga, CA (US);

Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30899 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are described for navigating a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system. The content items may include video feeds, audio feeds, television broadcasts, website, a web log or the like. Using any browser application, the user views content items presented in an interactive scroll display. Modules are included for filtering, sorting and sampling content to ensure delivery of relevant high-quality content to the user. A feedback mechanism is also included for refining relevance filtering, sorting and sampling processes.


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