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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Todd Sampson, Orlando, FL (US);
John Sampson, Orlando, FL (US);
Steve Ho, Apopka, FL (US);
Eric Marcoullier, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil Scott Rafer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Sampson, Orlando, FL (US);
John Sampson, Orlando, FL (US);
Steve Ho, Apopka, FL (US);
Eric Marcoullier, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil Scott Rafer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying network resources or other topics that are of interest to members of multiple online communities to which a user belongs. Online communities include blogs, websites, games, e-commerce systems, messaging systems, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors are tracked and analyzed to determine statistical metrics about community activity, such as which articles, links, services, or other network resources are popular in the online community. At least some of the tracking or analysis can be performed by clients that access the online communities, by a server of each online community, and/or by a central tracking system. The results for each community may be further analyzed relative to each other. The results are provided for all communities with which a given user is associated. For example, a list of the most popular links in the user's selected online communities.