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Apparatus, method and article to effect user interest-based matching in a network environment

  • US 9,836,533 B1
  • Filed: 03/25/2015
  • Issued: 12/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operation in an evaluation system, the evaluation system including at least one processor and at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium that stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data, the at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the method comprising:

  • deriving by the at least one processor a set of user interest groups from a plurality of user interests specified by a plurality of users as freeform text, where the number of interest groups in the set of user interest groups is less than a total number of user interests in the plurality of user interests specified by the plurality of users;

    for each of a number of the users, determining by the at least one processor a respective interest group membership vector based on respective user interests specified by the respective user, the interest group membership vector having one or more elements which represent a partial membership in respective ones of one or more of the interest groups; and

    assessing by the at least one processor at least one of the users based at least in part on at least one of the interest group membership vectors.

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