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  • US 8,788,488 B2
  • Filed: 09/15/2012
  • Issued: 07/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • determining, by at least one processor, an expected popularity of a file based on popularity information;

    assigning a popularity score to the file based on the expected popularity;

    adjusting, by the at least one processor, the assigned popularity score based on a time decay component such that greater weight is given to more recent popularity information of the popularity information than to less recent popularity information of the popularity information; and

    ordering the file relative to a plurality of other files based on the time-decay adjusted assigned popularity-score.

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