Ranking and ordering items in user-streams
US8874559B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 1, 2012 |
| Grant date | Oct 28, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 1, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/24578
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a set of items that are displayed to a user of a social networking service, the items comprising digital content distributed using the social networking service and being associated with item features, the item features comprising item-dependent features and user-dependent features; receiving feature values that are associated with one of an item-dependent feature and a user-dependent feature; receiving probabilities that are associated with a group and reflecting a likelihood that the user is a type of user associated with the group, the groups including a set of weights; determining an item score based on the feature values and a set of weights to provide item scores, the set of weights being identified based on the probabilities; and determining a subset of items to be displayed to the user based on the item scores.
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