Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080059576
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Prior Art Detail
#185Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth’’
Applies to Claims 16
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | This paper describes a technique for making personalized recommendations from any type of database to a user based on similarities between the interest profile of that user and those of other users. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Print Publication |
| Publication Title * | Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth’’ |
| Author | Upendra Shardanand and Pattie Maes |
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| Medium | Journal article |
| Publication Date * | January 1, 1995 |
| URL | http://en.scientificcommons.org... |
Notes / To Do
| Notes | This publication goes along with Foner's Phd on Yenta in that is describes work in Pattie Maes's group in the 1990s. The idea in this patent application is a sort of "base case" of what the group was working on during that period. While Ringo |
Excerpt
Excerpt This paper describes a technique for making personalized recommendations from any type of database
to a user based on similarities between the interest profile of that user and those of other users. |
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Claims
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A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a computing system to identify potential contacts for a target user, by a method comprising:
identifying from a contact list of the target user contact paths from the target user to other users that are within a maximum contact path length;
ranking users on the identified contact paths;
filtering out users on the identified contact paths who do not satisfy a recommendation criterion; and
storing an indication of the ranking of the non-filtered-out users as an identification of potential contacts.
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In practice, Ringo users like to use the system to discover who had similar musical tastes and contacting them for dating!
In practice, Ringo users like to use the system to discover who had similar musical tastes and contacting them for dating!
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