PERSONALIZED ACTIVITY DATA GATHERING BASED ON MULTI-VARIABLE USER INPUT AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCHEMA

摘要

A personalized activity data retrieval system and method provides users a platform to search activity data based on multi-variable user input. The present invention provides a search method where the system searches a database to gather activity information based on user interests and user attributes. A customization of search results are applied multi-dimensionally to customize the search result based on user interest and user attributes. As such, the search results are personalized to meet the user's search objective. Searches conducted with the same topic can be returned with different results for different users having varying attributes. Search results are more progressive such that they are more usable and the granularity of the customization increases.

主权项

1. A method of gathering an activity data based on one or more user profiles, from one or more users, wherein each of the one or more user profiles comprises a plurality of user interests and a plurality of user attributes, the method comprising the steps of:
identifying the plurality of user interests and the plurality of user attributes, accessible by at least one computer, wherein the one or more user profiles are received by one or more computerized user interfaces accessible by each of the one or more users; generating, by the at least one computer, a plurality of action verbs based on the plurality of user interests from each of the one or more user profiles, the plurality of action verbs being obtained from a database schema, wherein the database schema contains a list of action verbs, each of the list of action verbs having a hierarchical link to at least one of the plurality of user interests; searching, by the at least one computer, a plurality of base contents based on at least one of the plurality of action verbs, the plurality of base contents being searched from a database, wherein the database is in communication with at least one of: the internet and a user community; sorting, by the at least one computer, the plurality of base contents, wherein each of the plurality of base contents is examined to identify a portion that contains at least one of the plurality of action verbs, to provide a plurality of target contents; indexing, by the at least one computer, the plurality of target contents to a plurality of categories, wherein each of the plurality of categories is defined by each of the plurality of user attributes, the plurality of categories having a hierarchical structure defined in the database schema; and assigning, by the at least one computer, a rank to each of the plurality of target contents, the rank being assigned based on a plurality of rank factors, wherein the plurality of rank factors are selected from the group consisting of:
a number of the at least one of the plurality of action verbs within each of the plurality of target contents;a number of the at least one of the plurality of action verbs generated commonly from the one or more user profiles, within each of the plurality of target contents;the hierarchical link associated to the at least one of the plurality of action verbs;a number of the plurality of categories indexed to each of the plurality of target contents;a number of the plurality of categories common to the one or more user profiles, indexed to the plurality of target contents;each of a plurality of user relations, wherein the database schema contains the plurality of user relations defined among each of the one or more users;the hierarchical structure associated to each of the plurality of categories; andan author's user attributes related to the at least one of the plurality of action verbs, wherein the author is an owner of at least one of the plurality of target contents.