Enforcing category diversity
US9507801B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 4, 2011 |
| Grant date | Nov 29, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 28, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/9538
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enforcing category diversity of points of interest (POIs). In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to identify POIs, obtaining data identifying (i) POIs that satisfy the request, (ii) a category associated with each POI, and (iii) a non-scaled score associated with each POI, and ranking, for each category, the POIs based on the non-scaled scores. The method also includes scaling, for each of one or more categories, the non-scaled scores of the ranked POIs associated with the category, ranking the POIs using the scaled scores, for the POIs that are associated with the one or more categories, and the non-scaled scores, for the POIs that are not associated with the one or more categories, and providing data that identifies the POIs, as ranked according to the scaled and the non-scaled scores.
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