System to generate an aggregate interest indication with respect to an information item
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorAdam Nash
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Abstract
A method is provided to publish a list of top ranked listings. The method may include configuring a database to store a plurality of listings published over a network. An interest indication may be received from a user for a listing in the plurality of listings. An interest indication data structure may be created and stored that associates the user with the listing. Also, the top ranked listings may be identified from the plurality of listings based on the number of stored interest indication data structures for each listing. Further, the list of the top ranked listings may be published.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the hardware processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- determining interest values associated with one or more listings of a plurality of listings, the interest values determined based on data corresponding to user interest in monitoring the one or more listings;
- and
- identifying particular listings of the plurality of listings based on the interest values.
A method comprising:
- determining interest values associated with one or more listings of a plurality of listings, the interest values determined based on data corresponding to user interest in monitoring the one or more listings, the determining being performed by a processor of a machine;
- and
- identifying particular listings of the plurality of listings based on the interest values.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- determining interest values associated with one or more listings of a plurality of listings, the interest values determined based on data corresponding to user interest in monitoring the one or more listings;
- and
- identifying particular listings of the plurality of listings based on the interest values.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.