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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2023
Yahoo Assets Llc, New York, NY (US);
Kapil Thadani, New York, NY (US);
Akshay Soni, New York, NY (US);
Parikshit Shah, New York, NY (US);
Troy Chevalier, New York, NY (US);
Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, New York, NY (US);
Aaron Nagao, New York, NY (US);
Zhi Qu, New York, NY (US);
Yahoo Assets LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided, including: storing comments generated in response to a content item served over a network; analyzing the comments to determine features associated with each of the comments; using a scoring model to score each comment based on the comment's corresponding features; receiving a request to serve a subset of the comments; responsive to the request, selecting a ranking of the comments that is one permutation from possible rankings of the comments, wherein selecting the ranking is in accordance with a probability distribution of the possible rankings that is based on the scores of the comments; serving comments identified by the selected ranking over the network to a client device; determining a dwell time on the served comments; applying the dwell time to update the scoring model.