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DISTRIBUTED CONTENT ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREFOR

  • US 20080243997A1
  • Filed: 01/22/2008
  • Published: 10/02/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A distributed content item recommendation system comprising a central recommendation server and a plurality of remote recommendation devices coupled to the central recommendation server via a communication network;

  • wherein;

    the central recommendation server comprises;

    a correlation data store for storing content item set correlation data for sets of content items,means for providing content item set correlation data to the remote recommendation devices,means for maintaining a task list of content item correlation computation tasks, each content item correlation computation task determining content item set correlation data for at least one set of content items and each content item correlation computation task being computable independently of other content item correlation computation tasks,assigning means for assigning content item correlation computation tasks from the task list to remote recommendation devices,means for receiving first content item set correlation data for a first set of content items from a remote recommendation device assigned a content item correlation computation tasks for the first set, andmeans for including the first content item set correlation data in the correlation data store; and

    the remote recommendation devices comprise;

    means for receiving content item set correlation data from the central recommendation server;

    recommendation means for generating a content item recommendation in response to the content item set correlation data;

    processing means for executing an assigned content item correlation computation task to generate associated content item set correlation data; and

    means for transmitting the associated content item set correlation data to the central recommendation server.

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