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Shared Feed Reader and Method of Shared Feed Reading

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-09-23
IBM CORP
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[0015]The described shared feed reader and method provide enhanced group collaboration features that provide awareness, sharing, and coordination, to allow users to cope better with information discovery and overload.

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However, as feeds keep streaming new posts, and as new feeds appear, the task of going over all posts in one's feed reader becomes overwhelming.
The difficulty is twofold: for one, the sheer amount of posts may be very large; but on top of that, the quality of posts is not unified, and thus one is first faced with the task of filtering, and then with the task of actually reading.
The same problem can be observed in a group of people who are working together.

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[0024]In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the invention. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, and components have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the present invention.

[0025]The use of web feeds is growing rapidly as a means of obtaining updated information on a range of subjects. Feed readers are used to obtain and display the web feeds for a client or for a group of users. Feed readers may be web-based feed readers which are hosted on remote servers. Another form of feed reader is in the form of client software designed to collect web feed subscriptions locally at a client.

[0026]Shared feed readers allow access by multiple users who may each have their own login to allow personal and shared feeds to be accessed.

[0027]The basic...

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Abstract

A shared feed reader for multiple users and a method for sharing feed reading are provided which provide group collaboration features. The shared feed reader includes a server including a processor hosting the shared feed reader for remote access by multiple users, and a user interface for each of the multiple users including an aggregator of web feeds subscribed to by the user. The shared feed reader includes: a mechanism for defining a group of users, wherein web feeds subscribed to by users in the group are exposed to the other users in the group; and a mechanism for sharing a read status of a web feed post across the group, wherein the read status indicates which users have read the post. The shared feed reader may also include a mechanism for receiving a meta-feed of meta-posts, wherein meta-feeds and meta-posts relate to activities of users in the group on shared feeds and posts.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to the field of web feed readers. In particular, the invention relates to a shared web feed reader with collaborative features.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The information revolution has seen an increase both in the frequency at which new information is generated and in its volume. New findings and developments in science, technology, finance and law require people to keep up to date so as not to lag behind the competition.[0003]Keeping up to date requires first finding all the relevant resources, and then scanning them periodically. Feed readers have emerged as one of the prominent web 2.0 applications. A feed reader, also known as RSS reader or feed aggregator, is usually based on RSS or Atom standards. RSS is a family of formats including Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0), and Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0).[0004]Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F3/048
CPCG06Q10/10G06F17/3089G06F16/958
Inventor BELINSKY, ERANGUY, IDOJACOVI, MICHALSHAHAR, ELADSONSINO, EYAL
Owner IBM CORP
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