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Predicting interesting things and concepts in content

  • US 10,217,058 B2
  • Filed: 01/30/2014
  • Issued: 02/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented process performed by a computing device, comprising:

  • receiving arbitrary content selected by a particular user and rendering that content to a display device;

    automatically identifying and extracting a plurality of candidate items from the arbitrary content, the candidate items comprising any combination of one or more words, phrases, sentences, images, audio, hyperlinks, and topics in the arbitrary content;

    predicting, for each of the plurality of the candidate items, a measure of interest with respect to the particular user, the measure of interest for each of the candidate items representing a statistical measure of a likelihood that the particular user will be interested in additional content related to the corresponding candidate item;

    the predicted measure of interest provided by any combination of one or more of a machine-learned topic model and a machine-learned transition model,the machine-learned topic model generated by applying machine-learning to automatically evaluate content of samples of source and destination documents using a generative model that posits a distribution over joint latent transition topics for each possible transition between the source and destination topics,the machine-learned transition model generated by applying machine-learning to train on observed transitions between pairs of source content and destination content, and any combination of features extracted from those pairs and joint latent transition topics for each possible transition between the source and destination documents;

    ranking the candidate items based on the predicted measure of interest for each candidate item;

    selecting a predetermined number of the highest ranked candidate items;

    associating additional content with the selected candidate items; and

    modifying the arbitrary content by automatically arranging and displaying the associated additional content on the display device in conjunction with the arbitrary content, thereby enabling the user to interact with both the arbitrary content and the associated additional content.

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