Automatic population of a network accessible content collection
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorMark D. Yuan
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Abstract
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for automatically posting content to a network accessible content collection are described. User activity over a communication network from a client device is tracked and a triggering event is detected. In response to detecting the triggering event, a content item is automatically posted to a network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- tracking user activity of a user from a client device over a communication network;
- detecting from the user activity, using one or more processors, a triggering event, the triggering event being associated with a particular activity from a list of specified types of user activity that trigger automatic posting of a content item to a network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users, the list of specified types of user activity including viewing online content, creating online content, and location check-ins;
- automatically posting, in response to detecting the triggering event, the content item to the network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users, the content item being related to the user activity, each content item of the collection of content items being related to one type of user activity from among the list of specified types of user activity;
- assigning each content item of the collection of content items to a category based on one or more attributes of each content item, the one or more attributes including the type of user activity to which each content item is related, the assigning including:
- assigning a first content item to a first category corresponding to viewing online content;
- assigning a second content item to a second category corresponding to creating online content;
- and
- assigning a third content item to a third category corresponding to location check-ins;
- and
- causing presentation of a user interface including the collection of content items, the collection of content items being organized according to the category assigned to each content item.
A system comprising:
- a tracking module to track user activity of a user from a client device over a communication network and to detect a triggering event from the user activity, the triggering event being associated with a list of specified types of user activity that trigger automatic posting of a content item to a network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users;
- a posting module, comprising one or more processors, to post, in response to the detection of the triggering event, the content item to the network accessible collection of content items to be viewed by the additional users, the content item being related to the user activity, each content item of the collection of content items being related to a type of user activity from among the list of specified types of user activity;
- an organization module to assign a category to each content item of the collection of content items based on one or more attributes of each content item, the one or more attributes including the type of user activity to which each content item is related, the organization module to assign the category to each content item of the collection of content items by performing operations comprising:
- assigning a first content item to a first category corresponding to viewing online content;
- assigning a second content item to a second category corresponding to creating online content;
- and
- assigning a third content item to a third category corresponding to location check-ins;
- and
- a content collection module to cause presentation of a user interface including the collection of content items, the collection of content items being organized according to the category assigned to each content item.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- tracking user activity of a user from a client device over a communication network;
- detecting from the user activity, using one or more processors, a triggering event, the triggering event being associated with a list of specified types of user activity that trigger automatic posting of a content item to a network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users;
- posting, in response to detecting the triggering event, the content item to the network accessible collection of content items viewable by the additional users, the content item being related to the user activity, each content item of the collection of content items being related to a type of user activity from among the list of specified types of user activity;
- assigning each content item of the collection of content items to a category based on one or more attributes of each content item, the one or more attributes including the type of user activity to which each content item is related, the assigning including:
- assigning a first content item to a first category corresponding to viewing online content;
- assigning a second content item to a second category corresponding to creating online content;
- and
- assigning a third content item to a third category corresponding to location check-ins;
- and
- causing presentation of a user interface including the collection of content items, the collection of content items being organized according to the category assigned to each content item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.