System and method for subject matter notifications

摘要

A host may be enabled to administer a notification system by receiving a notification instruction indicating a user has enrolled in the notification system, identifying metadata associated with the notification instruction, generating update criteria related to the notification instruction and the metadata, monitoring an online resource associated with the notification instruction, determining whether the online resource has been updated, using the update criteria to determine a predicted interest to the user, comparing the predicted interest to a threshold set with respect to the user, and generating a notification when the comparison indicates the user should receive the update.

主权项

1. A method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors:
receiving a notification instruction including a selection of an interest threshold from among a plurality of available interest thresholds, the notification instruction being associated with an online resource; identifying metadata associated with the notification instruction, wherein identifying metadata associated with the notification instruction comprises:
parsing the online resource into a plurality of terms;automatically identifying key terms from among the plurality of terms appearing in the parsed online resource; andautomatically identifying other terms related to the identified key terms; receiving selection of at least one of the identified other terms; generating update criteria related to the notification instruction and the at least one selected term; monitoring the online resource for updates; using the update criteria to determine a predicted interest of an update to the user; comparing the predicted interest to the selected interest threshold of the plurality of available interest thresholds; and in response to determining that the predicted interest satisfies the selected interest threshold, enabling delivery of a notification to the user.