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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:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

May. 04, 2012
Applicants:

Ken Iwasa, Rockville, MD (US);

Seth Michael Murray, Redwood City, CA (US);

Goldee Udani, Gujart, IN;

Inventors:

Ken Iwasa, Rockville, MD (US);

Seth Michael Murray, Redwood City, CA (US);

Goldee Udani, Gujart, IN;

Assignee:

Comcast Interactive Media, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30038 (2013.01); G06F 17/30053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30817 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/252 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01);
Abstract

Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie may be used to determine a relevance ranking Popularity (i.e., entity rank) may be determined based on a variety of factors. In the movie example, popularity may be based on gross earnings, awards, nominations, votes and the like. According to one or more embodiments, entities may initially be categorized into relevance groupings based on popularity and/or other factors. Once categorized, the entities may be sorted within each grouping and later combined into a single ranked list.


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