SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC STORYLINE CONSTRUCTION BASED ON DETERMINED BREAKING NEWS

摘要

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
identifying, via the computing device over a network, a breaking news story being communicated to a user, said breaking news story comprising content associated with an event and information identifying users interested in said content; parsing, via the computing device, the breaking news story to identify said content, said parsing comprising analyzing said content to determine a category associated with said content; analyzing, via the computing device, media messages being communicated over the network to identify a development story, said development story comprising communicated content from said media messages that is related to the determined category; automatically compiling, via the computing device, information for a storyline based on the breaking news story and the development story; and communicating, via the computing device, a storyline message to the interested users, said story message comprising at least a portion of said storyline information.