Retrieval-Time Ranking for Community Content
OwnerCam Turner, Victor Summerinventors
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system of establishing, accessing, ranking and retrieving community-oriented content, the community content selected from a plurality of content items available at a content database for presentation at a client device. The method involves establishing a physical proximity of the client device to each of the content items available at the content database; establishing a freshness of the respective ones of the content items relative to the time of a request for the community content at the client device, computing an aggregated score, and ranking the content items to be presented at the client device, the aggregated score at least partially based on the physical proximity and the freshness.
Claims17
A computer-implemented method, executed in a processor, of retrieving community content, the community content selected from respective ones of content items available at a content database for presentation at a client device, the method comprising:
- establishing a physical proximity of the client device to the respective ones of the content items available at the content database;
- establishing a freshness of the respective ones of the content items relative to a time of a request for the community content at the client device;
- computing an aggregated score for the respective ones of the content items;
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- ranking the respective ones of the content items to be presented at the client device according to the respective aggregated score, the aggregated score at least partially based on the physical proximity and the freshness.
A computer system comprising:
- a proximity module to establish a location of a client device requesting retrieval of community content available at a content database and to establish a location of each of the respective ones of content items comprising the community content;
- a freshness module to establish a freshness of the respective ones of the content items relative to a time of the request for the community content at the client device;
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- a scoring module having program code to rank the content items at the time of the request at the client device;
- wherein the content items are ranked for presentation at the client device at least partially based on (i) a physical proximity of the client device to the respective ones of the content items, and (ii) the freshness of the respective ones of the content items.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.