Patent 8700610 was granted and assigned to Google on April, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system provides news alerts. For example, the system may receive topics of interest to users and periodically obtain news articles that originate from multiple sources of news articles and relate to the topics of interest to the users. The system may generate news alerts that include information associated with one or more of the news articles and provide the news alerts to the users.