US 10,311,070 B2Granted

Candidate topic picker for digital magazine

AssigneeFlipboard, Inc.

InventorRobert Griesmeyer

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Abstract

A system generates and displays to a user of a digital magazine a list of candidate topics. The system first receives a package name list from a user device of the user, and the package name list indicates computer applications installed on the user device. The system retrieves a package name-topic matrix generated based on information associated with a set of existing users of the system. The system compares package names included in the received package name list and package names included in the package name-topic matrix, and identifies known topics in the package name-topic matrix based on the comparison. The system generates a list of candidate topics for the user based on the identified known topics, and provides the list for display to the user. In response to candidate topics selected by the user, the system provides to the user content relevant to the selected candidate topics.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a list of applications installed on a user device of a user, each application being identified by a package name;
retrieving a package name-topic matrix representing correlations between a plurality of package names identifying a plurality of applications installed on user devices of a set of existing users and known topics associated with the set of existing users, wherein the package name-topic matrix is a two-dimensional matrix with one dimension representing the set of the existing users and the other dimension representing the known topics for the set of existing users, and each entry of the package name-topic matrix describes a correlation between a corresponding topic and a package name identifying an application installed on the user devices of the set of existing users;
comparing the package names on the received list with the plurality of package names in the retrieved package name-topic matrix;
identifying one or more known topics from the package name-topic matrix based on the comparison;
and
generating, for presentation to the user, a list of candidate topics based on the identified one or more known topics.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer program instructions, the computer program instructions when executed by a computer processor causes the processor to perform the steps of:

receiving a list of applications installed on a user device of a user, each computer application being identified by a package name;
retrieving a package name-topic matrix representing correlations between a plurality of package names identifying a plurality of applications installed on user devices of a set of existing users and known topics associated with the set of existing users, wherein the package name-topic matrix is a two-dimensional matrix with one dimension representing the set of the existing users and the other dimension representing the known topics for the set of existing users, and each entry of the package name-topic matrix describes a correlation between a corresponding topic and a package name identifying an application installed on the user devices of the set of existing users;
comparing the package names on the received list with the plurality of package names in the retrieved package name-topic matrix;
identifying one or more known topics from the package name-topic matrix based on the comparison;
and
generating, for presentation to the user, a list of candidate topics based on the identified one or more known topics.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.