Personalized electronic magazine

摘要

An personalized electronic magazine system includes an indexing module that stores topics related to various items available via a database. A user profile manager determines topics of interest to a particular user, and a recommendation generator uses the topic information from the indexing module and the topic information from the profile manager to generate recommended content to present to the user.

主权项

1. An electronic magazine system, comprising:
a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, the instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
accept, as input, content items;establish correspondences between individual ones of the content items and individual ones of a plurality of available topics;generate a plurality of profile topics responsive to automatically determined interests of a user;select magazine items from the content items responsive to correspondence between the available topics and the profile topics;assign scores to the profile topics, each of the scores assigned to a corresponding topic of the profile topics, each of the scores assigned based on a number of times that the user has consumed content items corresponding to one of the profile topics over a time period;periodically update the scores by decaying the scores using a pre-defined decay function to produce updated scores;compare the updated scores to determine a stale topic from the profile topics, the stale topic having a lower score than other topics from the profile topics; andremove the stale topic from the profile topics.