Back to results
US 9,286,356 B1Granted
Adjusting a ranking of search results
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsDaniel M. Crichton, Frances B. Haugen
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method performed by one or more processing devices includes obtaining search results responsive to a search query submitted by a user; determining a maturity score for the user, where the maturity score represents a measure of development of a particular user attribute; determining, based on the maturity score, utility scores for the search results, where a utility score represents a measure of utility of a particular type of content to a particular type of user as defined by the measure of development of the particular user attribute; and adjusting rankings of the search results based on the utility scores.
Claims18
A method performed by one or more processing devices, comprising:
- determining, based on usage of a social network by a user, a maturity score for the user, where the maturity score represents a measure of user development of the user within the social network;
- for a particular type of content associated with a resource,
- retrieving, from a set of utility score instructions, a utility score instruction for the particular type of content;
- wherein the utility score instruction defines, for the particular type of content in the social network, a relationship between a utility score and the maturity score;
- wherein the utility score represents a measure of utility of the particular type of content to the user as defined by the measure of user development in the social network;
- and
- wherein the utility score is determined independent of user input;
- wherein defined relationships across the set of utility score instructions promote a first pre-defined type of content among less mature users of the social network relative to other maturities of other users of the social network and promote a second pre-defined type of content among more mature users of the social network relative to the other maturities of the other users of the social network;
- and
- determining, based on the set of utility score instructions and the maturity score, utility scores for resources that are accessible to the user.
7 more elements
One or more non-transitory machine-readable hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
- determining, based on usage of a social network by a user, a maturity score for the user, where the maturity score represents a measure of user development of the user within the social network;
- for a particular type of content associated with a resource,
- retrieving, from a set of utility score instructions, a utility score instruction for the particular type of content;
- wherein the utility score instruction defines, for the particular type of content in the social network, a relationship between a utility score And the maturity score;
- wherein the utility score represents a measure of utility of the particular type of content to the user as defined by the measure of user development in the social network;
- and
- wherein the utility score is determined independent of user input;
- wherein defined relationships across the set of utility score instructions promote a first pre-defined type of content among less mature users of the social network relative to other maturities of other users of the social network and promote a second pre-defined type of content among more mature users of the social network relative to the other maturities of the other users of the social network;
- and
- determining, based on the set of utility score instructions and the maturity score, utility scores for resources that are accessible to the user.
7 more elements
A system comprising:
- one or more processing devices;
- and
- one or more non-transitory machine-readable hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
- determining, based on usage of a social network by a user, a maturity score for the user, where the maturity score represents a measure of user development of the user within the social network;
- for a particular type of content associated with a resource,
- retrieving, from a set of utility score instructions, a utility score instruction for the particular type of content;
- wherein the utility score instruction defines, for the particular type of content in the social network, a relationship between a utility score and the maturity score;
- wherein the utility score represents a measure of utility of the particular type of content to the user as defined by the measure of user development in the social network;
- and
- wherein the utility score is determined independent of user input;
- wherein defined relationships across the set of utility score instructions promote a first pre-defined type of content among less mature users of the social network relative to other maturities of other users of the social network and promote a second pre-defined type of content among more mature users of the social network relative to the other maturities of the other users of the social network;
- and
- determining, based on the set of utility score instructions and the maturity score, utility scores for resources that are accessible to the user.
10 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.