| Quora, Inc. Patent applications |
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| 20110302485 | COMPONENT-BASED CONTENT RENDERING SYSTEM - A method to perform component-based rendering of a webpage includes identifying a component hierarchy from which to render the webpage. A set of components are selected from the component hierarchy as an evaluation component set. The evaluation component set is evaluated by determining that a particular component of the evaluation component set does not include a data request for data item to be used in the rendering of the webpage. Responsive to the determination, least one child component of the particular component is identified within the component hierarchy. The child component is added to the evaluation component set. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302285 | UPDATE SERVER TO UPDATE RENDERED CONTENT - A method includes maintaining a list of component dependencies for components of a plurality of webpages served from a web server. A change relating to a data item in a database is detected. A first set of components that are impacted by the change relating to the data item in the database are identified. Using the list of component dependencies, a second set of components that are dependent on the first set of components are identified. A set of webpages, served from the web server to at least one browser application, that include components from the first and second sets of components are identified. From an update server, an update operation is initiated with respect to the set of webpages. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302216 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MERGING TOPICS ASSIGNED TO CONTENT ITEMS IN AN ONLINE APPLICATION - A question-and-answer application having questions with which topics are associated is described. In some embodiments, user-generated topics are assigned to questions to indicate the subject matter covered by the questions. The application logic includes topic merge logic for quickly and efficiently merging two topics, while enabling the topic merge operation to be easily undone if necessary. | 12-08-2011 |
