Subscriber applications with personalized feeds and methods for providing recommendations while maintaining user privacy

摘要

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a mobile or computer subscriber application that obtains articles or other computer files from a central database and displays the articles to a user of the display. The subscriber application may be tailored around one or more characteristics of the user of the device. In one embodiment, the type and number of articles provided to the device and displayed to the subscriber application may be based on the determination of the category or usage type of the application being performed by the user. Additionally, the determination of use of the subscriber application on the device is performed by the device and is contained within the device, wherein the usage information is not shared with the entire article providing system, and in other embodiments the article providing system and / You can decide which recommendations to give to your users. These recommendations may be based on one or more selected interests or topics of the subscription application user.