ORDERING RELEVANT CONTENT BY TIME FOR DETERMINING TOP PICKS

• US 20090292688A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: McCabe, John, Zachariah, Joe Toms, ROY, Scott, Rechin, Timothy Ho
• Application Number:
  US12/126,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20090292688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A computer-readable medium encoded with computer instructions for providing relevant content on a web page for a user is provided. According to embodiments of the invention, the instructions are for determining a relevance metric for at least two articles. Each article of the at least two articles is selected from content of the user. Each article is associated with a time. The instructions further include instructions for selecting a set of relevant articles based on the relevance metric and ordering the set of relevant articles according to the associated time of each article of the set. The instructions also include instructions for providing the ordered set of relevant articles to the user.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium encoded with computer instructions for providing relevant content on a web page for a user, the instructions including instructions for:

determining a relevance metric for at least two articles, wherein each article is selected from content of the user, and each article is associated with a time;

selecting a set of relevant articles based on the relevance metric;

ordering the set of relevant articles according to the associated time of each article of the set; and

providing the ordered set of relevant articles to the user.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the relevance metric is determined based in part on click behavior of the user.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the content is personalized.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for determining the most relevant article of the ordered set associated with an image.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for providing the image of the first article, if the first article of the ordered set is associated with an image.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for ordering the ordered set so that the most relevant article associated with an image is first in the ordered set.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the content is content from a customized webpage of the user.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the relevance metric is further determined based in part on a pre-determined profile of the user.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for:

determining duplicate articles in the ordered set; and

removing duplicate articles from the ordered set.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the personalized content is generated from RSS feeds.

11. A method for providing relevant content on a web page for a user, the method comprising:

determining a relevance metric for at least two articles, wherein each article is selected from content of the user, and each article is associated with a time;

selecting a set of relevant articles based on the relevance metric;

ordering the set of relevant articles according to the associated time of each article of the set; and

providing the ordered set of relevant articles to the user.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising determining the most relevant article of the ordered set associated with an image.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising providing the image of the first article, if the first article of the ordered set is associated with an image.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising ordering the ordered set so that the most relevant article associated with an image is first in the ordered set.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the content is content from a customized webpage of the user.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the relevance metric is further determined based in part on a pre-determined profile of the user.

17. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

determining duplicate articles in the ordered set; and

removing duplicate articles from the ordered set.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the personalized content is generated from RSS feeds.

19. An apparatus for providing relevant content on a web page for a user, the apparatus comprising:

logic operable for determining a relevance metric for at least two articles, wherein each article is selected from content of the user, and each article is associated with a time;

logic operable for selecting a set of relevant articles based on the relevance metric;

logic operable for ordering the set of relevant articles according to the associated time; and

logic operable for providing the ordered set of relevant articles to the user.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 further comprising logic for determining the most relevant article of the ordered set associated with an image.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 further comprising logic for providing the image of the first article, if the first article of the ordered set is associated with an image.

22. The apparatus of claim 20 further comprising logic for ordering the ordered set so that the most relevant article associated with an image is first in the ordered set.

23. The apparatus of claim 19 further comprising logic operable for receiving personalized content from a customized webpage of the user.

24. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the logic for determining the relevance metric further includes logic for determining the relevance metric based in part on a pre-determined profile of the user.

25. The apparatus of claim 19 further comprising:

logic for determining duplicate articles in the ordered set; and

logic for removing duplicate articles from the ordered set.

26. The apparatus of claim 19 further comprising logic operable for receiving personalized content from RSS feeds.