Patent ID: 9569547
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for displaying news content to a user, the method comprising: for each of a plurality of news content items, by a computer: for each of a plurality of users, by a computer: receiving, by the computer, a topic of interest and a timeframe of interest; identifying, from the annotated news content items and profile information, a plurality of news content items to recommend to one of the users, wherein each news content item has an annotated topic corresponding to the topic of interest and a date within the received timeframe of interest, and the news content items are identified at least in part according to their associated view count; recommending the news content items to the user; displaying, in a first region of a user interface on a user device, indicia of a plurality of recommended news content items; displaying, in a second region of the user interface, a map including a respective marker representing a respective location associated with each of the recommended news content items; receiving a user input identifying one of the displayed markers; and removing, from the display, the recommended news content items not associated with the identified marker, wherein the removing is responsive to the receiving the user input identifying one of the displayed markers.