Systems and methods of mapping attention

摘要

The disclosure describes systems and methods of ranking user interest in physical entities based on the attention given to those entities as determined by an analysis of communications from devices over multiple communication channels. The attention ranking systems allow any “Who, What, When, Where” entity to be defined and ranked based, at least in part, on information obtained from communications between users and user proxy devices. An entity rank is generated for entity known to the system in which the entity rank is derived from the information in communications that are indicative of user actions related to the entity. The entity ranks are then used to modify the display of information or data associated with the entities. The system may also generate a personal rank for each entity based on the relation of the entity to a specified user.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computing device, a request to display information related to a first physical entity; transforming, via the computing device, the request into search data; dynamically applying, via the computing device, the search data to descriptive information related to a set of other physical entities known to a network, said application of the search data comprising deriving a subset of other physical entities matching the search data from the descriptive information related to the set of other known physical entities, the descriptive information corresponding to the other physical entities is analyzed as part of said deriving the subset of other physical entities that match the search data; ranking, via the computing device, the physical entities in the subset of other physical entities to form a ranked subset of physical entities, the ranked subset based upon the applied search data, the ranked subset comprising the descriptive information corresponding to the other physical entities of the subset; and presenting, via the computing device over the network, information related to the ranked subset of physical entities to a first user associated with a user computing device, the presenting of the ranked physical entities information being dependent upon user information stored in the network, the user information comprising data generated by the user, data associated with the user, and data associated with the request.