Patent Document ID: 8290926
Application ID: 12691130

Base Claim:
1. A system configured to present to users at least one topical data feed comprising data items of at least two data feeds, respective data feeds provided by at least one data source, the system comprising: a data item receiving component configured to, for respective data feeds, receive the data items from the data source of the data feed; a topic identifying component configured to, for respective data items, identify at least one topic associated with the data item; and a topical data feed presenting component configured to: receive from a user at least one topic, and for respective topics received from the user: select a first data item of the data feed that explicitly references with the topic; identify a second data item of the data feed that is associated with the first data item, that does not explicitly reference the topic, and that is contextually related to the topic through the first data item; wherein identifying the second data item comprises performing a natural-language contextual analysis on the first data item and the second data item of the data feed to identify a contextual indicator of the topic in the first data item and the second data item; generate a topical data feed comprising the first data item associated with the topic, and the second data item; and present the topical data feed to the user.

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Claim 3:
3. The system of claim 1 : the system having access to a data store configured to store data items respectively associated with at least one topic; and the topical data feed presenting component configured to: upon receiving from the user the at least one topic, store the topic in the data store associated with the user; and upon receiving from the user a request for topical data feeds: retrieve from the data store the at least one topic in the data store associated with the user; generate the topical data feeds for respective topics; and present the topical data feeds to the user.