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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Oath Inc., New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Aasish Pappu, Rego Park, NY (US);

Troy Chevalier, San Mateo, CA (US);

Xue Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

YAHOO ASSETS LLC, Dulles, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/35 (2019.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); H04L 51/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including: providing, over the Internet, access to a plurality of topics, wherein each topic includes, and further provides access to, a plurality of posted items; recording interaction data for the plurality of topics, the interaction data identifying user activity occurring within each of the topics; analyzing the interaction data to identify clusters of topics that exhibit similar behavioral patterns; for each cluster of topics, generating a community that includes the topics in the cluster; providing, over the Internet, access to the communities, wherein accessing a given community further provides access to the topics included in that community, which further provide access to the posted items that are included in the topics within that community.


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