Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods of online interfaces for hierarchically arranged user-generated content
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Application No.: US14453812Application Date: 2014-08-07
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Publication No.: US09864814B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: MacGregor James Thomson , Thomas Biegeleisen , Siobhan Dooley
- Applicant: AOL Inc.
- Applicant Address: US VA Dulles
- Assignee: Oath Inc.
- Current Assignee: Oath Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Dulles
- Agency: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F3/0484 ; G06F3/0485 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided methods for providing an online interface for displaying hierarchically or logically arranged user-generated content. One method including receiving, from a first user over a network, topical user-generated electronic content, the topical user-generated electronic content being related to a topic of a web page; displaying the topical user-generated electronic content received from the first user on the web page; receiving, from a second user over the network, responsive user-generated electronic content and an indication of a desire to post the responsive user-generated electronic content on the web page in association with the topical user-generated electronic content; and displaying, adjacent to the topical user-generated electronic content on the web page, a user element or link that a third user can manipulate to display the responsive user-generated electronic content adjacent to the topical user-generated electronic content.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150052421A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ONLINE INTERFACES FOR HIERARCHICALLY ARRANGED USER-GENERATED CONTENT Public/Granted day:2015-02-19
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