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Apparatuses and methods for recommending a path through an information space

US9177336B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) · SE

Inventors

Johan Hjelm · Tokyo, JP
Mattias Lidström · Stockholm, SE
Mona Matti · Nacka, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 8, 2011
Grant date	Nov 3, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 21, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06Q50/01
WIPO fieldIT methods for management
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A recommendation apparatus for determining, for a user, a set of one or more recommended paths through an information space in response to receiving from the user a path request message. Advantageously, in some embodiments, the path recommender apparatus determines a recommended path by analyzing a set of paths, where each path in the set was traversed by a person who is in a “social graph” belonging to the user (e.g., each path in the set was traversed by one of the user's Facebook friends). In this way, paths can be recommended to the user based on paths that are popular with the user's friends.

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