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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:
Aug. 27, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2011
Applicants:

Eckart Walther, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Qi LU, Saratoga, CA (US);

David Ku, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Zhichen Xu, San Jose, CA (US);

Chung-man Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pavel Berkin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dan Rose, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jiangchang Mao, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eckart Walther, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Qi Lu, Saratoga, CA (US);

David Ku, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Zhichen Xu, San Jose, CA (US);

Chung-Man Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pavel Berkin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dan Rose, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jiangchang Mao, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for ranking a result set. The method according to one embodiment comprises selecting an item from the result set, selecting a user profile from one or more user profiles and selecting one or more items of personalized information from the selected user profile. A rank is calculated for the item on the basis of the selected one or more items of personalized information and the selected item in the result set is ranked in accordance with the calculated rank.


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