Organizing a stream of content

US8984098B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Andrew Tomkins · Menlo Park, US
• Todd Jackson · Mountain View, US
• Shaun Modi · Washington, US
• Ray Jiunn-An Su · Sunnyvale, US
• Justin Lewis Kosslyn · Mountain View, US
• Robert J. Spiro · San Francisco, US
• Jessica Ko · Mountain View, US
• Cameron Adams · Sydney, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 17, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N5/00
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for generating a stream of content with candidate content items associated with a likelihood of being interesting to a user. A model generation engine generates a model for a user. A scoring engine obtains candidate content items and compares candidate content items to a model to determine the most interesting content items. A user interface engine organizing first and second content items in a first direction and a third content item in a second direction. The user interface engine receives feedback that includes a request for additional content items or a request to remove an interest associated with a selected content item from the model. The model generation engine updates the model in response to feedback.