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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
John C. Platt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alice Zheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Christopher B. Weare, Bellevue, WA (US);
Steven E. Swenson, Redmond, WA (US);
John C. Platt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alice Zheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Christopher B. Weare, Bellevue, WA (US);
Steven E. Swenson, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.