Social behavior analysis and inferring social networks for a recommendation system

US8073794B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Sihem Amer-Yahia · New York, US
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich · Sunnyvale, US
• Bo Pang · Beijing, CN
• Julia Stoyanovich · New York, US
• Cong Yu · Ann Arbor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2007
• Grant date: Dec 6, 2011
• Expiry date: May 7, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for determining items or people of potential interest to recommend to users in a computer-based network. Implied social networks may be determined based at least in part on obtained social behavior information. Items or people of potential interest to users may be determined based at least in part on implied social network information. Vocabulary taxonomies may be associated with, or used in determining, implied social networks.