Providing a network-based personalized newspaper with personalized content and layout

Claim 1

A method performed by one or more electronic apparatuses for providing a personalized presentation of news and information to a recipient comprising steps that perform the acts of: obtaining preferences of the recipient that represent one or more preferred categories in a form that conforms to a base hierarchical structure comprising topics and subtopics, wherein each subtopic is hierarchically subordinate to a respective topic in the base hierarchical structure; applying a first mapping to obtain a first indication of categories that represents the one or more preferred categories in a form that conforms to a first hierarchical structure comprising topics, wherein the first mapping specifies a transformation between the topics and the subtopics in the base hierarchical structure to the topics in the first hierarchical structure; generating first search requirements in response to the first indication of categories and using the first search requirements to identify one or more first documents from a first source of documents, each first document having content deemed pertinent to at least some of the one or more preferred categories; applying a second mapping to obtain a second indication of categories that represents the one or more preferred categories in a form that conforms to a second hierarchical structure comprising topics, wherein the second mapping specifies a transformation between the topics and the subtopics in the base hierarchical structure to the topics in the second hierarchical structure; generating second search requirements in response to the second indication of categories and using the second search requirements to identify one or more second documents from a second source of documents, each second document having content deemed pertinent to at least some of the one or more preferred categories; obtaining content information that represent at least part of the content of one or more of the first documents or one or more of the second documents; and generating a representation of articles including the content information such that a presentation of the representation conforms to a specified presentation layout.

Claim 2

A method performed by one or more electronic apparatuses for providing a personalized presentation of news and information to a recipient comprising steps that perform the acts of: obtaining preferences of the recipient that represent one or more preferred categories in a form that conforms to a base hierarchical structure comprising topics and subtopics, wherein each subtopic is hierarchically subordinate to a respective topic in the base hierarchical structure; applying a first mapping to obtain a first indication of categories that represents the one or more preferred categories in a form that conforms to a first hierarchical structure comprising topics, wherein the first mapping specifies a transformation between the topics and the subtopics in the base hierarchical structure to the topics in the first hierarchical structure; generating first search requirements in response to the first indication of categories and using the first search requirements to identify one or more first documents from a first source of documents, each first document having content deemed pertinent to at least some of the one or more preferred categories; applying a second mapping to obtain a second indication of categories that represents the one or more preferred categories in a form that conforms to a second hierarchical structure comprising topics, wherein the second mapping specifies a transformation between the topics and the subtopics in the base hierarchical structure to the topics in the second hierarchical structure; generating second search requirements in response to the second indication of categories and using the second search requirements to identify one or more second documents from a second source of documents, each second document having content deemed pertinent to at least some of the one or more preferred categories; obtaining content information that represent at least part of the content of one or more of the first documents or one or more of the second documents; and generating a representation of articles including the content information such that a presentation of the representation conforms to a specified presentation layout.