Patent Document ID: 8495210
Application ID: 13567471

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing a list of individual subscribers to an Internet digital content feed service, the listed subscribers together defining a subscriber audience, and each subscriber on the list having an associated subscriber profile; selecting an article to publish to the subscriber audience based on the subscriber profiles; publishing the selected article to the subscriber audience via the Internet digital content feed service; analyzing the selected article to generate corresponding article information; storing the article information in a data store in association with an identifier of a corresponding author of the article; tracking individual subscriber actions associated with the selected article to form attention data, wherein tracking includes determining whether a status identifier associated with the selected article indicates that the article is unread; analyzing the attention data to form an indication of each of the one or more individual subscribers' response to the selected article; storing the indicia of each of the one or more individual subscribers' responses to the selected article; 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data, to predict a response of the one or more of the individual subscribers of the subscriber audience to a new, unpublished article.

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Claim 4:
4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein forming the attention data includes creating metadata responsive to the individual subscribers' actions, including assigning a label or category to the selected article.