Patent ID: 9483801
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of automatically fading online user content, comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices, digital content from a first user, wherein the digital content received from the first user is associated with a first user-defined fading time indication to fade attribution information associated with the digital content and not fade the digital content, and at least one user-defined category; posting, using the one or more computing devices, the digital content and the attribution information at a first time; associating, using the one or more computing devices, the first user-defined fading time indication with the attribution information, wherein the associating comprises storing the first user-defined fading time indication including a time period and a first determination that the digital content available to a second user does not include the attribution information of the first user to the digital content, so as to make authorship of the digital content anonymous to the second user; receiving, using the one or more computing devices, at a second time, from the second user, a request to view the digital content, wherein the second time is after the first time, and wherein the second user is distinct from the first user; determining, using the one or more computing devices, the availability of the digital content and the attribution information based on a difference between the second time and the first time with respect to the first user-defined fading time indication, and the at least one user-defined category; and automatically providing for display to the second user, using the one or more computing devices, the available digital content for the at least one user-defined category without providing the attribution information of the first user that is associated with the digital content for the at least one user-defined category, so as to make authorship of the digital content anonymous to the second user.