Recommending Content to Digital Magazine Server Users Based on Content Inclusion in Digital Magazines

摘要

A digital magazine server allows its users to create digital magazines by including content items in sections of one or more digital magazines. For various pairs of digital magazines, the digital magazine server determines a score based on a number of content items added to a digital magazine that were previously added to an additional digital magazine in a pair. The score indicates a frequency that the additional digital magazine added content items before the digital magazine. Digital magazines may be ranked for a user based on the scores, with the ranking used to recommend digital magazines or other users to the user. Further, the scores and connections between digital magazines may be used to create an influence score for various digital magazines.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
storing information describing a plurality of digital magazines in a digital magazine server, each digital magazine including one or more content items and timestamps indicating times when each content item was added to the digital magazine; identifying a user of the digital magazine server that associated a content item with a subject digital magazine associated with the user; identifying one or more additional digital magazines with which the content item was associated before the user associated the content item with the subject digital magazine; generating a score for each additional digital magazine, the score for an additional digital magazine based on a number of times that content items were added to the additional digital magazine before the same content items were added to the subject digital magazine; ranking the additional digital magazines based at least in part on the scores; selecting one or more of the additional digital magazines based at least in part on the ranking; and presenting a suggestion identifying the selected one or more additional digital magazines to the user.