Avoiding redundant presentation of content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10776320-B2
Application number	US-201615215203-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2016
Priority date	Jul 20, 2016
Publication date	Sep 15, 2020
Grant date	Sep 15, 2020

Abstract

A first application executing on a client device can access content and present the content to a user. An operating system of the client device can store into a database metadata identifying at least the content. A second application executing on the client device can access the content. In response, the operating system can determine that the first application already presented the content by accessing the metadata in the database. Responsive to the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content, the operating system can indicate to the second application not to present the content.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
accessing, by a first application executing on a client device, a content;
presenting, by the first application, the content to a user;
responsive to the first application presenting the content to the user, storing, by an operating system of the client device, into a database metadata identifying at least the content;
accessing, by a second application executing on the client device, the content;
responsive to the second application accessing the content, the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content by accessing the metadata in the database; and
responsive to the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content, the operating system indicating to the second application not to present the content.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein both the first application and the second application are executed in a computing environment hosted by the operating system.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein storing, by the operating system of the client device, into the database the metadata identifying at least the content comprises an application program interface of the operating system storing the metadata into the database.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the application program interface is called by the first application.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content by accessing the metadata in the database comprises an application program interface of the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content to the user by accessing the metadata in the database.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the application program interface is called by the second application.

7. The system of claim 1 , the executable operations further comprising:
responsive to the first application presenting the content to the user, storing, by the operating system of the client device, into the database a user identifier identifying the user;
wherein the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content comprises the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content to the user based in the user identifier stored into the database.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operating system indicating to the second application not to present the content further is responsive to determining that the user has selected a user selectable setting indicating not to present content that has already been presented to the user.

9. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:
accessing, by a first application executing on a client device, a content;
presenting, by the first application, the content to a user;
responsive to the first application presenting the content to the user, storing, by an operating system of the client device, into a database metadata identifying at least the content;
accessing, by a second application executing on the client device, the content;
responsive to the second application accessing the content, the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content by accessing the metadata in the database; and
responsive to the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content, the operating system indicating to the second application not to present the content.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein both the first application and the second application are executed in a computing environment hosted by the operating system.

11. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein storing, by the operating system of the client device, into the database the metadata identifying at least the content comprises an application program interface of the operating system storing the metadata into the database.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the application program interface is called by the first application.

13. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content by accessing the metadata in the database comprises an application program interface of the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content to the user by accessing the metadata in the database.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the application program interface is called by the second application.

15. The computer program product of claim 9 , the method further comprising:
responsive to the first application presenting the content to the user, storing, by the operating system of the client device, into the database a user identifier identifying the user;
wherein the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content comprises the operating system determining that the first application already presented the content to the user based in the user identifier stored into the database.

16. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the operating system indicating to the second application not to present the content further is responsive to determining that the user has selected a user selectable setting indicating not to present content that has already been presented to the user.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Ayyagari V U Phani Kumar
• Bhide Manish A
• Narayanam Krishnasuri
• Rao Jasti Purnachandra

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F16/2365

  Ensuring data consistency and integrity · CPC title

• G06F16/1748 Primary

  De-duplication implemented within the file system, e.g. based on file segments (de-duplication techniques in storage systems for the management of data blocks G06F3/0641) · CPC title

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic