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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2010
Michael Mathieson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Pundlkrao Ghatare, San Jose, CA (US);
Vipul C. Dalal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameep Navin Solanki, San Jose, CA (US);
Muhammad Faisal Rehman, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Mathieson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Pundlkrao Ghatare, San Jose, CA (US);
Vipul C. Dalal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameep Navin Solanki, San Jose, CA (US);
Muhammad Faisal Rehman, San Jose, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are methods and systems for promoting item listings that satisfy a query based on the item listings being assigned to certain categories that have, based on historical click data, exhibited high demand characteristics for the query. Consistent with some embodiments, a certain number of leaf-level categories are identified based on demand data for those categories, and the item listings assigned to those categories are promoted through a weighting factor derived in part based on the click probability score associated with the category. In some embodiments, certain sub-categories may be selected when the demand associated with the child categories of the sub-category is well balanced.