Social content suggestions based on connections
US9367878B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 7, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jun 14, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 6, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q50/01
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for recommending content to a user in a social network, including: logging user activity for the user in the social network; categorizing the user activity across all the user's networks, wherein each category is assigned a score based on relevance to the user; assigning weights to the user activities; calculating a social index score as a function of the weighted user activity categories; logging user content into categories; scoring the user content; and generating a content social index by weighting the content scores.
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