Content volume throttling in feed aggregators

摘要

Methods and systems of managing feed items may involve receiving a feed item and determining an estimate of an amount of time to read the feed item. In addition, the feed item can be prioritized in a feed aggregator based at least in part on the estimate of the amount of time to read the feed item.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method comprising:
receiving a feed item; determining a number of words in the feed item; determining a content attribute associated with the feed item, wherein the content attribute includes at least one of a topic and a source of the feed item; determining a feed usage pattern; determining an estimate of an amount of time to read the feed item based on at least one of the number of words, the content attribute and the feed usage pattern; determining a user availability threshold based on at least one of a user calendar and a first user input; automatically determining a content balance threshold corresponding to an unread feed item type based on the feed usage pattern, wherein the content balance threshold is set to define a consumption amount of a feed aggregator based on a historical pattern of a user for the feed item type; displaying the feed item in the feed aggregator based on an automatic comparison of the estimate with the user availability threshold and the content attribute with the content balance threshold, wherein the feed item is displayed if the comparison determines that the estimate of the amount of time to read the feed item does not exceed the user availability threshold and determines that the content attribute does not exceed the content balance threshold; and modifying a display characteristic of the feed item to at least delay a display of the feed item in the feed aggregator if either the comparison determines that the estimate of the amount of time to read the feed item exceeds the user availability threshold or determines that the content attribute exceeds the content balance threshold, wherein delaying the display of the feed item includes presenting the feed item in a different feed aggregator for a different day.