Patent Document ID: 8745081
Application ID: 13419091

Base Claim:
1. A method of providing news, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a request for news articles from a user; identifying, by the processor, a geographic location of the requesting user; accessing, by the processor, user logs comprising other users' prior selections of news articles; identifying, by the processor, from the user logs, sources of news items selected by other users with respective geographic locations that are determined to match the requesting user's geographic location; eliminating, by the processor, news sources that are popular across a plurality of user groups; selecting, by the processor subsequent to the elimination, a subset of the news sources as preferred news sources for obtaining relevant news items; obtaining, by the processor, the relevant news items from the selected news sources; and transmitting, by the processor, the relevant news items for presentation to the requesting user.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: selecting by the processor, a subset of the news sources based on profile data of the requesting user comprising age, gender and declared interests in addition to the geographic location of the requesting user.