Generating content recommendations from an online game

US8028022B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Elizabeth A. Brownholtz · Andover, US
• Casey Dugan · Cambridge, US
• Werner Geyer · Newton, US
• David R. Millen · Boxford, US
• Martin T. Moore · Westford, US
• Michael Muller · Medford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2008
• Grant date: Sep 27, 2011
• Expiry date: Mar 23, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63F2300/61
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content.