News feed techniques
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsDavid J. Cheng, Ken H. Chin, Oludare V. Obasanjo, Douglas R. Pearce, Seung-Hae Park, Jennie P. Telehowski, Mohammed Arshad Hussain
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Abstract
News feed techniques are described. In implementations, content is parsed from one or more emails that are addressed to a user. The parsed content from the email is exposed, automatically and without user intervention, for output in a news feed of the user.
Claims20
A system to control inclusion of content from emails in a news feed, the system comprising:
- a web service embodied on one or more computing devices comprising at least one processor and memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- parse content from one or more emails received via an email service, the parsed content of a respective email of the one or more emails comprising metadata including one or more tags that indicate whether the content of the respective email originated from a social network service;
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- control exposure of the parsed content from the one or more emails to cause inclusion of the parsed content in the news feed associated with a recipient.
A system to control inclusion of content from emails in a news feed, the system comprising:
- a client device comprising at least one processor and memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to control output of the news feed received via a network connection in a user interface associated with the client device, the news feed comprising:
- content parsed from an email describing non-textual content of the email, and at least one icon, the icon representing the non-textual content of the email, where the content parsed from the email comprises metadata including one or more tags that indicate whether the content of the respective email originated from a social network service;
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- at least one status update comprised of textual content, where the textual content describes the non-textual content parsed from the email.
One or more computing devices comprising at least one processor and memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method for controlling inclusion of content from emails in a news feed, the method comprising:
- parsing content from one or more emails addressed to a recipient received via an email service, at least one of the emails comprising non-textual content, the parsed content comprising metadata including one or more tags that indicate whether the content of the respective email originated from a social network service;
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- creating an update for inclusion in the news feed associated with the recipient, the update comprising:
- a textual portion created, at least in part, by utilizing inferred parsing to describe the non-textual content;
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- a non-textual portion configured to include a thumbnail icon that represents the non-textual content;
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- exposing the update to cause output of the update in the news feed associated with the recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.