Patent ID: 8255521
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of characterizing an audience of subscribers to an Internet digital content feed service (“RSS”), to support selection or editing of articles for publication to the audience, the method comprising: characterizing a subscriber audience comprising one or more individual subscribers to the RSS to generate one or more subscriber profiles; selecting a plurality of articles to publish to the subscriber audience based on the one or more subscriber profiles; publishing the plurality of articles to the subscriber audience via the RSS; analyzing each of the published articles to generate article information for each of the published articles; storing the article information for each of the plurality of articles in a data store in association with an identifier of a corresponding author of each of the plurality of articles; tracking individual subscriber actions associated with each of the plurality of articles to acquire attention data, wherein tracking includes determining whether a status identifier associated with at least one of the plurality of articles indicates that the at least one of the plurality of articles is unread; analyzing the attention data to form an indication of each of the one or more individual subscribers' responses to each of the plurality of articles; storing the indicia of each of the one or more individual subscribers' responses to the plurality of articles; and using the stored article information together with the corresponding indicia of attention data, to predict a response of the one or more of the individual subscribers of the subscriber audience to a new, unpublished article.