US 11,444,909 B2Granted

Latent user communities

AssigneeYahoo Assets LLC

InventorsAasish Pappu, Troy Chevalier, Xue Wu

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Abstract

A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including: providing, over the Internet, access to a plurality of topics, wherein each topic includes, and further provides access to, a plurality of posted items; recording interaction data for the plurality of topics, the interaction data identifying user activity occurring within each of the topics; analyzing the interaction data to identify clusters of topics that exhibit similar behavioral patterns; for each cluster of topics, generating a community that includes the topics in the cluster; providing, over the Internet, access to the communities, wherein accessing a given community further provides access to the topics included in that community, which further provide access to the posted items that are included in the topics within that community.

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Dependent claims

A method implemented by at least one server computer, comprising:

providing access to a plurality of topics, wherein each topic includes, and provides access to, a plurality of posted items;
recording interaction data of a plurality of users for the plurality of topics, the interaction data identifying user activity occurring within each of the plurality of topics;
analyzing the interaction data of the plurality of users to group two or more topics that exhibit similar activity-behavioral patterns into a cluster of topics, wherein the grouping comprises grouping a first topic of the two or more topics and a second topic of the two or more topics into the cluster of topics based on first user activity within one or more first activity-behavioral patterns of the first topic having one or more first changes in a time-dependent metric and second user activity within one or more second activity-behavioral patterns of the second topic having one or more second changes in the time-dependent metric that are similar to the one or more first changes in the time-dependent metric;
generating a community that includes topics in the cluster of topics;
and
providing access to the community, wherein accessing the community provides access to the topics included in the community, and the topics included in the community provide access to posted items that are included in the topics included in the community.

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Facts

Application: 16/699,962Filed 2 Dec 2019 · continuation
Priority: 1 Mar 2017
Published: US 2020/0106734 A12 Apr 2020
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 16/335
Querying: filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
G06F 16/35
Of unstructured textual data: clustering; Classification
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
H04L 51/52
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: for…

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Application15/446,913Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Mar 2017
US 2020/0106734 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Apr 2020
US 10,498,690 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0253485 A1Published application
US 11,444,909 B2This patent

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