READER APPLICATION SYSTEM UTILIZING ARTICLE SCORING AND CLUSTERING

摘要

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a mobile or computer reader application that obtains articles or other computer files from a central database and displays the articles to a user of the device. In addition to providing the articles to the reader application, an article providing system may also determine the quality or popularity of particular articles and provide the most popular articles to users of the system. In one embodiment, the system may receive one or more anonymous interaction metrics from one or more devices connected to the system. The anonymous interaction metrics may be associated with a particular article and provide some indication of a user's engagement with the article. The system utilizes these interaction metrics or measurements to set or adjust a score or ranking associated with the particular article. The score may then be utilized by the system to rank the article in relation to other articles available through the system to provide the most popular or highest ranked articles to users of the system.

主权项

1. A method for managing content in a content database, the method comprising:
receiving electronic content comprising an article-based computing file received at a first time of arrival; analyzing the received content file to determine an initial quality estimate of the received content file; adjusting a priority of the received content file based at least on the initial quality estimate of the received content, the adjusted priority of the received content file comprising a second time of arrival, the second time of arrival before the first time of arrival; assigning an initial score value to the received content comprising the adjusted priority; storing the received content file and the initial score value of the received content in a content database.