READER APPLICATION WITH A PERSONALIZED FEED AND METHOD OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WHILE MAINTAINING USER PRIVACY

摘要

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a mobile or computer reader application that obtains articles or other computer files from a central database and displays the articles to a user of the device. The reader application may be customizable around one or more characteristics of the user of the device. In one embodiment, the type and number of articles provided to the device and displayed in the reader application may be based on the determination of a category or type of usage of the application is performed by the user. Further, the determination of the use of the reader application on the device is performed by and contained within the device such that usage information is not shared with overall article providing system. In another embodiment, the article providing system and/or device may determine recommendations to provide to a user of the reading application. These recommendations may be based on one or more selected interests or topics of the user of the reading application.

主权项

1. A method for providing a computer file to a computing device, the method comprising:
receiving, from the computing device, an indication of an interest by a user of the computing device in a first parameter of a first subset of a plurality of article-type computing files available from a computer file providing system; correlating the first parameter of the first subset of the plurality of article-type computing files to a second parameter of a second subset of the plurality of article-type computing files available from a computer file providing system, the first parameter different than the second parameter; calculating a recommendation for one or more articles of the plurality of article-type computing files available from a computer file providing system based at least on the correlation of the first parameter and the second parameter; and transmitting a recommendation indicator to the computing device for the one or more articles of the plurality of article-type computing files available from the computer file providing system.