SEGMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA

摘要

Users belonging to a particular category at a networking site are monitored by a system and according to a method for their selection of articles from a networking update stream. The characteristics of the users, including the categories they belong to, are received as metadata corresponding to the each respective article. Periodically an article database is queried according to the category and a selected time period to determine the number of users that have chosen to follow the industry and that have initiated selection actions towards articles in the database. Articles from the query are ranked according to their popularity among users having interest in the same industry category and are presented to a viewing user at the networking site.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
responsive to a query of a database, receiving a selection of articles and respective selection action data at a networking site, the articles being selected by users belonging to a category and submitted to a networking update stream; according to a number of the users initiating each respective selection action, scoring each article to produce a corresponding popularity score; arranging the selection of articles according to the respective popularity scores to produce a ranked listing of the articles; and responsive to receiving an indication of a user accessing the networking site, transmitting the ranked listing of the articles to a client device of a viewing user, the viewing user having chosen to follow the category.