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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jaewon Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kevin Chang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Baohua Huang, Foster City, CA (US);
Boyi Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A news feed system provided with an on-line social network system determines that a news feed is to be constructed for a viewer. The news feed system accesses the viewer's profile and other information associated with the viewer, accesses an inventory of activities that have been identified as potentially of interest to the viewer, and calculates relevance score for each item inventory of activities using the combined predictions methodology. The activities are then arranged for presentation to the viewer via a news feed web page, using respective calculated relevance scores.