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Alerting users to items of current interest

  • US 9,317,560 B2
  • Filed: 04/22/2013
  • Issued: 04/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-implemented method of informing a participant user that an item accessible by the participant user via a network is of current interest, comprising:

  • receiving via the network indications from source users other than the participant user that the item is of current interest;

    processing the indications using one or more computer processors including;

    determining an intensity value for a first indication of the indications from a first user of the source users;

    blocking a second indication of the indications from a second user of the source users from being used in ranking the item based on data regarding identity of the second source user; and

    calculating a rank for the item based on the intensity value of the first indication and not based on an intensity value for the second indication, the rank indicating a level of current interest of the item relative to other items accessible by the participant user via the network; and

    informing the participant user via the network that the item is of current interest based on the rank for the item.

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