SELECTING CONTENT BASED ON INTEREST TAGS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN AN INTEREST CLOUD
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- determining a plurality of interests of a user;
providing an interest cloud that includes a plurality of interest tags in response to determining the plurality of interests, each interest tag of the plurality of interest tags corresponding to a respective interest of the plurality of interests; and
selecting content to be provided to the user based on the plurality of interest tags.
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Abstract
Techniques are described herein for selecting content based on interest tags that are included in an interest cloud. An interest cloud is a tag cloud that includes interest tags, which correspond to respective interests of a user. An interest of a user is subject matter that is deemed to have a greater importance than other subject matter to the user based on information that pertains to the user. For example, an interest of a user may be derived from information in the user'"'"'s emails, vitality streams, Web browsing history, etc. In another example, a user may designate subject matter as being an interest of the user. For instance, if a user adds an interest tag to an interest cloud, subject matter that corresponds to the interest tag is said to be an interest of the user.
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29 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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determining a plurality of interests of a user; providing an interest cloud that includes a plurality of interest tags in response to determining the plurality of interests, each interest tag of the plurality of interest tags corresponding to a respective interest of the plurality of interests; and selecting content to be provided to the user based on the plurality of interest tags. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system comprising:
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an interest module configured to determine a plurality of interests of a user; a cloud provider configured to provide an interest cloud that includes a plurality of interest tags in response to a determination of the plurality of interests, each interest tag of the plurality of interest tags corresponding to a respective interest of the plurality of interests; and a content selector configured to select content to be provided to the user based on the plurality of interest tags. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for enabling a processor-based system to select content to be provided to a user, comprising:
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a first program logic module for enabling the processor-based system to determine a plurality of interests of the user; a second program logic module for enabling the processor-based system to provide an interest cloud that includes a plurality of interest tags in response to determination of the plurality of interests, each interest tag of the plurality of interest tags corresponding to a respective interest of the plurality of interests; and a third program logic module for enabling the processor-based system to select the content to be provided to the user based on the plurality of interest tags.
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