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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Spencer Powell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An analysis system analyzes known user affinities to identify particular objects that serve as useful predictors of whether a given user will have an affinity for a given topic, even if the user has not previously expressly specified an affinity for that topic. Specifically, both the topic group of users associated with a given topic and the category group of users associated with the topic's more general category are identified. For each of a set of objects, degrees of divergence between the topic group and the category group are evaluated for a criterion evaluated with respect to the object. A topic profile is created based on objects for which there is a high degree of divergence.