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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maria Renhui Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, London, GB;
Qichu Lu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.