Methods and systems for providing a customizable guide for navigating a corpus of content

摘要

Methods and systems are described for navigating a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system. The content items may include video feeds, audio feeds, television broadcasts, website, a web log or the like. Using any browser application, the user views content items presented in an interactive scroll display. Modules are included for filtering, sorting and sampling content to ensure delivery of relevant high-quality content to the user. A feedback mechanism is also included for refining relevance filtering, sorting and sampling processes.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
electronically accessing tagged content from a corpus of content; electronically applying, via a processing device, one or more culling parameters, at least one of the one or more culling parameter being not specified by one or more users, to the corpus of content to identify relevant content tags for the one or more users; receiving one or more sorting criteria specified for the one or more users associated with the one or more users; electronically sorting, via the processing device, the relevant content tags according to the one or more sorting criteria; sampling the sorted content tags to extract text and thumbnail hyperlinks from the sorted content tags in an order according to the sorting at a sampling rate; refining, via a feedback module executed by the processing device, the culling parameters, sorting criteria, and sampling, the refining of the culling parameters comprising tracking a culling parameter statistic selected from a group of culling parameter statistics consisting of browsing habits for a given user, tracking and integrating changes for a single user or group of users, navigation history, and frequency metrics comprising metrics related to displaying larger fonts and cycling more frequently; presenting the sampled content tags in a flying video mode at the sampling rate in a customizable guide to an end-user.