US 11,887,199 B2Granted

Systems and methods to enhance news literacy in news consumers

AssigneeSnapwise Inc.

InventorsSukhsagar Singh Jolly, Payman Pouladdej, Jan Kulinski, Guy Streetley, Harleen Kaur Jolly

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Abstract

Examples of methods and systems to generate information about news source items appearing in user social media feed content, where the news source items describe news events or topics. The news events or topics can be identified by the recognition of news information associated with a news source in information configured for use as user social media feed content. The generated information can be displayed on a user device along with assigned bias, skew, or viewpoint ratings for news sources that describe the news source events. The news source items, news sources, and information can be selected on the user display for further user review. Notifications associated with news source bias, skew, or viewpoint ratings and information associated with user engagement with social media feed content can also be generated. Bias, skew, or viewpoint ratings for user social media accounts can be provided.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method for improving media literacy in a person in need thereof comprising:

a) obtaining, by a computer, information associated with a user's selection of a news source item for review by the user on a user device display, wherein the user-selected news source item describes a user-selected news event or topic;
b) identifying, by the computer, one or more additional news source items describing the user-selected news event or topic, wherein the identification is by analyzing a corpus of news sources for the one or more additional news source items that also describe the user-selected news event or topic;
c) generating, by the computer, a collection of news source items each describing the user-selected news event or topic, wherein the collection of news source items comprises the user-selected news source item and the one or more additional news source items identified in the corpus of news sources as also describing the user-selected news event or topic;
d) displaying, by the computer, one or more of the user-selected news source items in the collection of news source items on the user device display;
e) configuring, by the computer, each of the displayed news source items in the collection of news source items for user selection and review;
and
f) providing, by the computer, instructions to the user associated with evaluation of some or all of the displayed news source items in the collection of news source items, wherein the user instructions are associated with user-identification of a presence or absence of bias, skew, or viewpoint in one or more of the news source items in the collection of news source items.

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A method for improving media literacy in a person in need thereof comprising:

a) identifying, by a human or a computer, a person in need of an improvement in one more media literacy components;
b) obtaining, by the computer, information associated with a user's selection of a news source item for review by the user on a user device display, wherein the user-selected news source item describes a user-selected news event or topic;
c) identifying, by the computer, one or more additional news source items describing the user-selected news event or topic, wherein the identification is by analyzing a corpus of news sources for the one or more additional news source items that also describe the user-selected news event or topic;
d) generating, by the computer, a collection of news source items each describing the user-selected news event or topic, wherein the collection of news source items comprises the user-selected news source item and additional news source items identified in the corpus of news sources as also describing the user-selected news event or topic;
e) displaying, by the computer, some or all of the user-selected news source items in the collection of news source items on the user device display;
f) configuring, by the computer, each of the displayed news source items in the collection of news source items for user selection and review;
and
g) providing, by the computer, instructions to the user associated with evaluation of some or all of the displayed news source items in the collection of news source items, wherein the user instructions are associated with user-identification of a presence or absence of bias, skew, or viewpoint in one or more of the news source items in the collection of news source items.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/712,586Filed 4 Apr 2022 · continuation
Priority: 2 Oct 2019
Published: US 2022/0335540 A120 Oct 2022
Granted: 30 Jan 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 30/0282
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: rating or review of business operators or products
G06F 16/30
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of unstructured textual data
G06F 16/35
Of unstructured textual data: clustering; Classification
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services

Family

Application62/909,720Us provisional application · filed 2 Oct 2019
Application17/002,152Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 25 Aug 2020
Application17/225,043Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Apr 2021
US 2022/0335540 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Oct 2022
US 11,295,398 B2Parent of this continuation
US 11,341,203 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application17/225,043Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2021/0103626 A1Published application
US 2021/0256629 A1Published application
US 11,887,199 B2This patent

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