GENERATING A NEWS TIMELINE AND RECOMMENDED NEWS EDITIONS

摘要

The described embodiments make it possible to present to the user news articles or other content that is likely to be of interest to the user and is temporally and / or geographically related to the user's location or area of interest. The news delivery system includes an ingest module that assigns topics, locations and dates to available content, a profile engine that determines profile topics and geographic locations that a particular user finds relevant, and operation of the ingest module and profile engine And a news delivery module for selecting content for a user based on a desired timeframe. In one embodiment, the profile engine performs attenuation processing to remove old topics and locations from the user's profile. In related aspects, the profile engine maintains multiple profiles for the user.