Personalized aggregator for organizing and publishing public and private content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9946797-B2
Application number	US-201514624931-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2015
Priority date	Feb 18, 2014
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for allowing users to organize and selectively publish content of interest, with freedom to rearrange and curate information in a desired presentation format. The content may be generated by the user or other sources, allowing the user to moderate and organize the content that the user aggregates. The content (e.g. social network posts, online news, SMS messages) may be publicly available for other users to contribute with new information, or used as source for their own content of interest; it can also be shared only with select users or communities (registered or not), or be kept private. Publishing channels might comprise, for instance, web portals or public displays. Filters may be applied to automatically select and aggregate content from several sources. Methods are implemented to organize content by creating, discarding, replicating and reformatting information via a display interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tool for curating electronic content comprising:
a memory storage device for storing content previously created by one or more users of a social network, said content including at least one container having a plurality of content elements;
a processor device associated with said memory storage device, wherein said processor device is configured to perform method steps to:
receive, via commands communicated over a network from a computer device, a user selection of a container having said plurality of content elements;
respond to said commands communicated from the computer device to aggregate select elements from said container;
respond to said commands communicated from the computer device to filter out select elements from said container;
respond to said commands communicated from the computer device to rearrange an order of select elements in said container;
create a new container having said aggregated elements in said rearranged order with select elements filtered out to prevent access by other users; and
publish, for access by select user devices over the network, the new container; and
respond to commands communicated from the computer device to set access control rights for members of said social network to contribute further content to said new container, wherein to set said access control rights for members, said processor device is further configured to:
set a filter parameter associated with said new container to indicate said new container as enabled to:
receive additional contribution of content elements by all members of the social network;
receive additional contribution of content elements by a community of selected members of the social network; or
receive additional contributions of content elements from all or select members of a community, to be reviewed by a moderator first before publication; and
prevent any members of the social network form contributing content elements to said new container.

2. The tool according to claim 1 , wherein said content elements include user posts of messages communicated amongst users of the social network, said at least one container comprising a collection of said user posts, wherein to filter out select elements, said processor device is further configured to:
identify a selected user post in said collection to be filtered; and
set a filter parameter associated with said new container to hide said user post from a view of said aggregated elements of said new container when displayed at selected remote computer devices of said other users.

3. The tool according to claim 2 , wherein said at least one container includes a user created board, said content elements comprising one or more collection containers, each collection container comprising said collection of said user posts, wherein to aggregate select elements, said processor device if further configured to:
identify one or more selected collection containers in said board to be included in a new board; and
set a filter parameter associated with said new container to aggregate said identified collection containers for said new board when displayed at selected remote computer devices of said other users.

4. The tool according to claim 1 , wherein said content elements include user posts of messages communicated amongst users of the social network in a default chronological order, said at least one container comprising a collection of said user posts, wherein to rearrange an order of select elements, said processor device is further configured to:
identify a selected user post in said collection to be in rearranged order; and
set a filter parameter to enable said new container to present a view of said elements in a desired order when displayed at selected remote computer devices of said other users.

5. The tool according to claim 1 , wherein said processor device is further configured to:
respond to commands communicated from the computer device to set access control rights for members of said social network to view said new container.

6. The tool according to claim 5 , wherein to set access control rights for members to view, said processor device is further configured to:
set a filter parameter associated with said new container to indicate contents of said new container as being one of:
publically available for view by all members of the social network;
selectively available for view by a selected community, or by select members of the social network; or
privately available for view only by the owner of the container.

7. The tool according to claim 1 , wherein said processor device is further configured to:
respond to said commands communicated from the computer device to aggregate for inclusion in said new container, additional web-based content elements received from an external source.

8. The tool according to claim 7 , wherein said additional web-based content elements received from an external source comprises: RSS feeds or Twitter® message posts.

9. A method for curating electronic content comprising:
storing, in a memory storage device, content previously created by one or more users of a social network, said content including at least one container having a plurality of content elements;
receiving, at a processor device associated with said memory storage device, commands communicated over a network from a computer device of a user, to select a container having said plurality of content elements;
aggregating, by said processor device, responsive to said commands communicated from the computer device, select elements from said container;
filtering out, by said processor device, responsive to said commands communicated from the computer device, select elements from said container;
rearranging, by said processor device, responsive to said commands communicated from the computer device, an order of select elements in said container;
creating a new container having said aggregated elements in said rearranged order with select elements filtered out to prevent access by other users; and
publishing, for access by select user devices over the network, the new container, and
setting, by said processor device, responsive to commands communicated from the computer device, access control rights for members of said social network to contribute further content to said new container, wherein said setting access control rights for members comprise:
setting a filter parameter associated with said new container to indicate said new container as enabled to:
receive additional contribution of content elements by all members of the social network;
receive additional contribution of content elements by a community of selected members of the social network; or
receive additional contributions of content elements from all or select members of a community, to be reviewed by a moderator first before publication; and
prevent any members of the social network form contributing content elements to said new container.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein said content elements include user posts of messages communicated amongst users of the social network, said at least one container comprising a collection of said user posts, wherein said filtering out select elements comprises:
identifying a selected user post in said collection to be filtered; and
setting a filter parameter associated with said new container to hide said user post from a view of said aggregated elements of said new container when displayed at selected remote computer devices of said other users.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein said at least one container includes a user created board, said content elements comprising one or more col

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Cardonha Carlos Henrique
• Herrmann Ricardo Guimarães
• Motta Mateus Molinaro
• Sultanum Nicole Barbosa

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

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

• G06F16/958

  Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking · CPC title

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F17/3089

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic