Patent ID: 8271495
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing aggregated content from a network, the method being implemented by one or more processors that perform steps comprising: creating a category definition for each of a plurality of categories, the category definition for each category comprising a category name and one or more terms, wherein each of the one or more terms associated with a particular category definition (1) identifies a term that is pertinent in determining whether an article should be associated with a particular category associated with the particular category definition, and (2) excludes any terms that are not pertinent in determining whether an article should be associated with the particular category associated with the particular category definition; retrieving a plurality of articles from over a network; analyzing each article of the plurality of articles, in order to associate each article of the plurality of articles, with one or more categories in the plurality of categories, wherein analyzing each article includes associating a particular article of the plurality of articles with a corresponding category based on (1) a presence of one or more character strings that appear in the particular article, wherein each of the one or more character strings (i) correspond to a particular term in the one or more terms in the category definition of the corresponding category, and (ii) is not the category name of the corresponding category, and (2) one or more additional criteria to weight the presence of said one or more character strings over other character strings that correspond to a term of a category definition of another category; prior to analyzing each article, of the plurality of articles, assigning a portion of each of a plurality of web pages to one or more corresponding categories in the plurality of categories, so that each category in the plurality of categories is assigned to at least a portion of the plurality of web pages; displaying, on each of the plurality of web pages, at least a portion of individual articles that have been associated with the one or more corresponding categories assigned to the web page, wherein each web page, of the plurality of web pages, displays at least one category name that is assigned thereto.