OTHER USER CONTENT-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING

• US 20140006444A1
• Filed: 06/28/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Gay, Julian, Lee, Dominic, Nuzhnyi, Pylyp
• Application Number:
  US13/931,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006444A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing

Abstract

A method is provided for recommending content in a distributed database environment. The distributed database environment includes a first user, a second user, a first container of searchable data accessible by the first user and a second container of searchable data accessible by the second user. The method includes: receiving by a search routine, a selection of a first search result produced in response to a first search on a first search term by the first user in the first container; associating the selection and attributes of the selection within the first container with the first search term; performing a search, by the search routine, on a second search term that is the same or similar to the first search term according to a predefined criteria, of the second user in the second container; producing a second search result that is influenced by the associated selection and attributes.

Claims

1. A method for recommending content in a distributed database environment, the distributed database environment comprising a first user, a second user, a first container of searchable data accessible by the first user but not by the second user, and a second container of searchable data accessible by the second user but not by the first user, the method comprising:

receiving by a search routine, a selection of a first search result produced in response to a first search on a first search term by the first user in the first container;

associating the selection and attributes of the selection within the first container with the first search term;

performing a search, by the search routine, on a second search term that is the same or similar to the first search term according to a predefined criteria, of the second user in the second container;

producing a second search result that is influenced by the associated selection and attributes.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving of the first search result includes results produced in response to the first search on the first term by the first user in a third shared container that is accessible by both the first user and the second user.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein an organizational entity is a group having access across the entire distributed database environment.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the attributes are data or document content attributes.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the data or document content attributes are selected from the group consisting of a frequency of a word or a pattern, image data, or links.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the attributes are data or document metadata.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the data or document metadata is selected from the group consisting of creation date and file size.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predefined criteria is a degree of term matching or synonyms.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predefined criteria is a probability threshold.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the producing is further influenced by a predefined and known relationship between the first user and the second user.

11. A method for recommending content in a distributed database environment, the distributed database environment comprising a first user, a second user, a first container of searchable data accessible by the first user but not by the second user, and a second container of searchable data accessible by the second user but not by the first user, the method comprising:

receiving by a search routine, a first search result produced in response to a first search on a first search term by the first user in the first container;

associating attributes of data related to the first search result within the first container with the first search term;

performing a search, by the search routine, on a second search term that is the same or similar to the first search term according to a predefined criteria, of the second user in the second container;

producing a second search result that is influenced by the associated attributes.

12. A system for recommending content in a distributed database environment, the distributed database environment comprising a first user, a second user, a first container of searchable data accessible by the first user but not by the second user, and a second container of searchable data accessible by the second user but not by the first user, comprising:

a first search result algorithm that receives a selection of a first search result produced in response to a first search on a first search term by the first user in the first container;

an associating algorithm that associates the selection and attributes of the selection within the first container with the first search term;

a search algorithm that performs a search on a second search term that is the same or similar to the first search term according to a predefined criteria, of the second user in the second container;

a second search result algorithm that produces a second search result that is influenced by the associated selection and attributes.

13. A non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed by a processor to implement a method for recommending content in a distributed database environment, the distributed database environment comprising a first user, a second user, a first container of searchable data accessible by the first user but not by the second user, and a second container of searchable data accessible by the second user but not by the first user, the method comprising:

receiving by a search routine, a selection of a first search result produced in response to a first search on a first search term by the first user in the first container;

associating with the processor the selection and attributes of the selection within the first container with the first search term;

performing a search, by the search routine, on a second search term that is the same or similar to the first search term according to a predefined criteria, of the second user in the second container;

producing with the processor a second search result that is influenced by the associated selection and attributes.