Patent ID: 9117058
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring sources, comprising: receiving, at a central user interface, inputs identifying a plurality of online sources associated with a plurality of different websites; using a processor to allow the central user interface to communicate with the plurality of online sources associated with the plurality of different websites in order to obtain content published at one or more sources of the plurality of online sources; displaying, via the central user interface, the content as one or more pieces of obtained content with one or more controls which, if selected, cause an action to be performed on the one or more pieces of obtained content, the displaying based at least in part on a type of sorting including one or more of the following: creation time of the one or more pieces of obtained content, a computed importance of the one or more pieces of obtained content, a user to whom the one or more pieces of obtained content is assigned, a computed importance of a creator of the one or more pieces of obtained content, whether media is attached to the one or more pieces of obtained content, or a sentiment assigned to the one or more pieces of obtained content; receiving an input comprising a selection of a control that is selected from the one or more controls; and performing an action associated with the control that is selected from the one or more controls on at least one piece of the obtained content that publishes a result associated with the action on the central user interface or at an online source using an application programming interface (API) associated with a website corresponding to the online sources, the action including one or more of the following: assigning at least one of the obtained content, assigning a sentiment to at least one of the obtained content, replying to at least one of the obtained content, deleting at least one of the obtained content, or republishing at least one of the obtained content.