Social sharing system
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorsNeelakantan Sundaresan, Atish Das Sarma, Si Si, Elizabeth Churchill
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Abstract
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for providing recommendations based on social network sharing activity. Sharing activity relating to the sharing of the content item on a social network by a first user is accessed. Consumption information related to the consumption of the content item. A correlation between the sharing activity and the consumption information is determined. A recommendation is then generated based on the correlation.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- accessing, by a computer system, user data that includes:
- sharing activity information that identifies at least one instance of a first user sharing a news article on a set of social networks;
- consumption information that identifies at least a consumption of the news article by one or more other users that have connections with the first user on the set of social networks;
- determining, by the computer system, a set of correlations based on the sharing activity information and the consumption information;
- after determining the set of correlations, the computer system identifying a second user based on the set of correlations;
- determining, by the computer system, a particular news article for the second user based on the set of correlations;
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- causing, by the computer system, the particular news article to be presented to the second user via a user interface on a device associated with the second user.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computer system to perform operations comprising:
- accessing sharing activity information that identifies an instance of a first user sharing a news item on a set of social networks;
- accessing consumption information that identifies a consumption of the news item by a second user that has a connection with the first user on the set of social networks;
- determining a set of correlations based on the sharing activity information and the consumption information;
- identifying a third user based on the set of correlations;
- determining, based on the set of correlations, a particular news item to present to the third user as a recommendation for the third user;
- and
- causing the particular news item to be presented to the third user.
A system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a memory having program instructions stored thereon that are executable by the at least one processor to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- accessing user data that includes:
- sharing activity information that identifies at least one instance of a first user sharing article content on a set of social networks;
- consumption information that identifies at least a consumption of the article content by one or more other users that have connections with the first user on the set of social networks;
- determining a set of correlations based on the sharing activity information and the consumption information;
- after determining the set of correlations, identifying a second user based on the set of correlations;
- and
- causing the article content to be presented to the second user as a recommendation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.