HIERARCHICAL PAGE TEMPLATES FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION IN A DIGITAL MAGAZINE

摘要

A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine.

主权项

1. A method for generating a digital magazine, the method comprising:
storing a plurality of sub-templates, each sub-template including one or more regions specifying a layout of content items to be placed in the one or more regions; storing a plurality of page templates, each page template including one or more regions specifying a layout of content items to be placed in the more regions, at least one page template including a region that includes a sub-template; selecting a page template from the one or more candidate page templates based at least in part on a portion of the display area of the client device and one or more characteristics of the content items from the one or more sources, the page template including the region that includes the sub-template; generating scores for one or more sub-templates for the region, a score for a sub-template based on the display area of the client device, characteristics of one or more content items for presentation in the display area, and an amount of time between a current time and a time when the sub-template was previously used to present content; selecting a display sub-template of the one or more sub-templates based on the scores for the one or more sub-templates; and generating a section of the digital magazine for presentation via the client device, the section including one or more content regions including content items in the region placed in positions specified by the display sub-template.