Patent ID: 8589418
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for providing personalized web feed recommendations to users, the system comprising: a user data store comprising first user interest data associated with a first user and second user interest data associated with a second user; a web feed data store comprising web feed content; a recommendations system comprising computer hardware, the recommendations system configured to generate first personalized web feed recommendations for the first user based at least in part on the first user interest data, the first personalized web feed recommendations comprising at least a portion of the web feed content stored in the web feed data store; and a page generator configured to output a first web feed user interface comprising the first personalized web feed recommendations for presentation to the first user, the first web feed user interface comprising functionality for the first user to submit new web feed content to the web feed data store, wherein the new web feed content was not previously contained in the web feed data store; wherein the recommendations system is further configured to generate second personalized web feed recommendations for the second user including the new web feed content submitted by the first user based at least in part on the second user interest data and a behavioral association detected between the user-submitted new web feed content and at least one subscribed-to web feed of the second user, and to identify users who have subscribed to the user-submitted new web feed content; wherein the page generator is further configured to output a second web feed user interface for presentation to the second user, the second web feed user interface comprising the second personalized web feed recommendations and a list of a subset of the users who have subscribed to the new web feed content, thereby enabling the second user to subscribe to the new web feed content; wherein the subset of the users who have subscribed to the user-submitted new web feed content includes users indicated by the second user interest data as friends of the second user; and wherein the behavioral association detected between the user-submitted new web feed content and the at least one subscribed-to web feed of the second user indicates that at least one user subscribed to both the user-submitted new web feed content and the at least one subscribed-to web feed of the second user.