System, method, and computer program for personalizing content for a user based on a size of a working vocabulary of the user

• US 9,208,509 B1
• Filed: 07/13/2012
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amdocs Development Limited (Amdocs Ltd.), Amdocs Software Systems Limited (Amdocs Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Amdocs Software Systems Limited (Amdocs Ltd.)
• Inventors: Curran, David, Sofranko, Juraj, Bradley, Keith, Kerrigan, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Egloff, Peter
• Application Number:
  US13/549,332
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• Field of Search: 434/156, 434/167, 434/169, 434/178, 434/323, 704/1, 704/10, 705/14.66
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0254 based on statistics
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/003 electrically operated apparatus or devices

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for personalizing content for a user based on a size of a working vocabulary of the user. In use, text is identified from content that is one of consumed and output by a user. Additionally, a size of a working vocabulary of the user is identified using the text. Further, the content is personalized based on the size of the working vocabulary of the user.

Claims

1. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising computer code for:

identifying by a social network text from content that is one of consumed and output by a user;

determining by the social network a native language of the user indicated within a profile of the user within the social network;

identifying by a vocabulary analysis module a total number of words within the identified text;

measuring a size of a working vocabulary of the user by the vocabulary analysis module using the text upon determining that the identified text is in the determined native language of the user and upon determining that the total number of words within the identified text is greater than a predetermined number, where measuring the size of the working vocabulary includes;

identifying a total number of distinct words within the identified text, and

calculating the size of the working vocabulary as a ratio of the total number of distinct words to the total number of words within the identified text;

storing by an advertisement database a plurality of advertisements, where for each of the plurality of advertisements, the advertisement is stored by the advertisement database in association with one of a plurality of vocabulary thresholds upon determining by the advertisement database that the advertisement has been previously selected by a threshold number of other users each having the working vocabulary matching the vocabulary threshold; and

selecting by the advertisement database one of the plurality of advertisements for presentation to the user, where the advertisement is selected based on a determination that the advertisement is stored in association with a vocabulary threshold matching the size of the working vocabulary of the user.

2. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the text is included in content written by the user.

3. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the text is included in content read by the user.

4. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the advertisement is selected further based on a context of the text.

5. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the content includes at least one of a recommendation and an advertisement.

6. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the selected advertisement is previously determined to be clicked on by a threshold number of other users each having a working vocabulary size matching the vocabulary threshold.

8. The computer program of claim 1, further including storing the size of the working vocabulary of the user in the profile of the user.

9. The computer program of claim 8, wherein the content is personalized by identifying the size of the working vocabulary of the user from the profile of the user.

10. The computer program of claim 1, wherein the size of the working vocabulary of the user is predetermined to be associated with at least one characteristic.

11. The computer program of claim 10, wherein content is personalized for the user based on the at least one characteristic.

12. The computer program of claim 1, wherein content is personalized for the user using preferences identified for other users having a working vocabulary size within a same predetermined range as the size of the working vocabulary of the user.

7. The computer program of 1, further comprising correlating the size of the working vocabulary of the user to an intelligence quotient, wherein content is personalized for the user by identifying for the user content associated with the intelligence quotient.

13. A method, comprising:

identifying by a social network text from content that is one of consumed and output by a user;

determining by the social network a native language of the user indicated within a profile of the user within the social network;

identifying by a vocabulary analysis module a total number of words within the identified text;

measuring a size of a working vocabulary of the user by the vocabulary analysis module using the text upon determining that the identified text is in the determined native language of the user and upon determining that the total number of words within the identified text is greater than a predetermined number, where measuring the size of the working vocabulary includes;

identifying a total number of distinct words within the identified text, and

calculating the size of the working vocabulary as a ratio of the total number of distinct words to the total number of words within the identified text;

storing by an advertisement database a plurality of advertisements, where for each of the plurality of advertisements, the advertisement is stored by the advertisement database in association with one of a plurality of vocabulary thresholds upon determining by the advertisement database that the advertisement has been previously selected by a threshold number of other users each having the working vocabulary matching the vocabulary threshold; and

selecting by the advertisement database one of the plurality of advertisements for presentation to the user, where the advertisement is selected based on a determination that the advertisement is stored in association with a vocabulary threshold matching the size of the working vocabulary of the user.

14. A system, comprising:

a processor for;

identifying by a social network text from content that is one of consumed and output by a user;

determining by the social network a native language of the user indicated within a profile of the user within the social network;

identifying by a vocabulary analysis module a total number of words within the identified text;

measuring a size of a working vocabulary of the user by the vocabulary analysis module using the text upon determining that the identified text is in the determined native language of the user and upon determining that the total number of words within the identified text is greater than a predetermined number, where measuring the size of the working vocabulary includes;

identifying a total number of distinct words within the identified text, and

calculating the size of the working vocabulary as a ratio of the total number of distinct words to the total number of words within the identified text;

storing by an advertisement database a plurality of advertisements, where for each of the plurality of advertisements, the advertisement is stored by the advertisement database in association with one of a plurality of vocabulary thresholds upon determining by the advertisement database that the advertisement has been previously selected by a threshold number of other users each having the working vocabulary matching the vocabulary threshold; and

selecting by the advertisement database one of the plurality of advertisements for presentation to the user, where the advertisement is selected based on a determination that the advertisement is stored in association with a vocabulary threshold matching the size of the working vocabulary of the user.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is coupled to memory via a bus.