Patent ID: 8645497

Claim:
A method of serving content, comprising: at a server system having memory storing one or more programs executed by the server system: receiving a request from a client device associated with a user, wherein the request includes a user identifier; in response to receiving the request: selecting a document for transmitting to the client, the selecting comprising: when a number of unread items in a content feed to which the user has subscribed meets a first predefined threshold, selecting a document corresponding to a home page of the content feed to which the user has subscribed; and when the number of unread items in the content feed to which the user has subscribed meets a second predefined threshold, selecting a document corresponding to a URL in a most recent unread content item of the content feed to which the user has subscribed; and when the selected document corresponds to a URL in the most recent unread content item of the respective content feed to which the user has subscribed, marking the content item as read; and transmitting to the client device a redirect to the selected document.