Dynamic digital montage

摘要

A dynamic digital montage system assists a user in creating and publishing a montage about one or more specified topics. The system receives an identification of one or more topics of interest from the user, and based on the subject information, collects data from dynamic and static data sources for display in dedicated sections of a montage. The data is presented in one of a number of predefined but editable layouts for presentation to a user. In one implementation, at least one of the montage components is associated with a dynamic data source and is updated when new data is provided by the dynamic data source. In another implementation, the data sources attached to the montage components are analyzed on a periodic basis, and based on the analysis, data source assignments and/or the montage layout is revised.

主权项

1. A method implemented by a computing system, the method comprising:
saving authoring information for a layout of a montage, wherein the authoring information is based on at least one user input from a first user, the at least one user input defining a first location in the layout for a first montage component and a second location in the layout for a second montage component; responsive to at least another user input from the first user, identifying a first data source to connect to the first montage component and a second data source to connect to the second montage component; configuring the first montage component to display first data from the first data source and the second montage component to display second data from the second data source; receiving, through a communications network, a first data stream from the first data source and a second data stream from the second data source; analyzing displayable features of the montage to determine popularity information of the montage layout; and providing an editing recommendation to the user regarding a recommended change to the montage layout for improving popularity of the montage based on the analyzing.