Patent ID: 8700610
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more processors of the one or more server devices and from a user, information for generating a news alert, generating, by the one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a search string based on the information for generating the news alert; periodically searching, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, news articles from a plurality of sources of news articles without user intervention and based on the search string; identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices and based on the searching, news articles relating to the topic of interest to the user, generating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the news alert that includes information associated with one or more of the identified news articles; and providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the news alert to a device associated with the user.