Appeal No. 2001-1664
Application No. 08/960,787
example on the World Wide Web. In essence, the method derives a
list of suggested items based on the observed behavior of other
users of the system. The selection of items of interest is
further constrained by calculating a score used to quantify
commonality of interest between pairs of users and based on this
score, each user is allocated a set of “friends.” Items are then
suggested to a given user in response to his request, which (a)
that user has not yet requested and which (b) a friend of that
user has requested at least twice before the present request by
the user.
Further understanding of the invention can be achieved by
the following claim.
1. A method of identifying items of information from an
information system, for at least one of a group of users of the
information system, said method comprising the steps of:
(i) obtaining a first record indicative of items of
information requested from the information system by each
user in the group;
(ii) obtaining a second record indicative of items of
information responsive to their having been requested from
the information system on more than one occasion by the same
user;
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