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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2020
Myfitnesspal, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Aadhar Jain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chul Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan Levine, San Francisco, CA (US);
MyFitnessPal, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with modifying a food record database. The method comprises receiving a plurality of food records from a plurality of sources, each of the plurality of food records comprising at least a food record description, the plurality of sources including (i) at least one government agency and (ii) users of the food record database. The method further comprises receiving search requests from users, and returning one or more top search results from the food record database in response. The method also comprises determining a score for a particular food record identified by the top search results, wherein the score is calculated based at least in part on one of: a number of times the particular food record has been included in the top search results of the search requests or a number of times the particular food record has been logged.