发明名称 Personalization of news articles based on news sources
摘要 News search and browse experience is personalized based on user preferences. User attributes like a geographic location are obtained and news sources preferred by other users with attributes similar to those of a requesting user are identified. News sources that are popular across different user groups are eliminated and relevant news items from the remaining news sources are retrieved and presented to the requesting user.
申请公布号 US8745081(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.06.03
申请号 US201213419091 申请日期 2012.03.13
申请人 Yahoo! Inc. 发明人 Vadrevu Srinivas;Wu Su-Lin;Shahshahani Ben
分类号 G06F7/00;G06F17/30 主分类号 G06F7/00
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A method of providing news, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a request for news articles from a user; identifying, by the processor, a geographic location of the requesting user; accessing, by the processor, user logs comprising other users' prior selections of news articles; identifying, by the processor, from the user logs, sources of news items selected by other users with respective geographic locations that are determined to match the requesting user's geographic location; eliminating, by the processor, news sources that are popular across a plurality of user groups; selecting, by the processor subsequent to the elimination, a subset of the news sources as preferred news sources for obtaining relevant news items; obtaining, by the processor, the relevant news items from the selected news sources; and transmitting, by the processor, the relevant news items for presentation to the requesting user.
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