ATTRIBUTE-BASED-CATEGORICAL-POPULARITY-ASSIGNMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A system is disclosed for determining the popularity of elements within categorized data according to a category to which they pertain based on the popularity of element attributes. The categorized data may be a list of products, where the elements may be products classified by product categories and the attributes may be brand names. Key words may be associated with such brands and/or their products. The key words may be words used when referring to the brands and/or their products with respect to their product category. These key words may be applied to additional data from an external source providing an on-line service, where service user-text is recorded in the additional data. Popularity scores may then be assigned to the products based on indications of references to the brands and/or their products, with respect to their product category, derived from the application of the key words to the additional data.

主权项

1. A product popularity determination system comprising:
a categorized data store having categorized data that classifies products from various brands according to various product categories; an additional data store having additional data collected from an external source, the additional data recording words employed by users of a service provided by the external source; and a popularity-score assignment module operable to assign popularity scores to products within a particular product category according to brand popularity based on qualifying indicators of references in the additional data to brands of products within the particular product category, the references directed to the particular product category.