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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2013
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Subramanian Shivashankar, Chennai, IN;
Brindha Padmanaabhan, Chennai, IN;
Manoj Prasanna Kumar, Chennai, IN;
Karthikeyan Premkumar, Chennai, IN;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method for propagating user preference information in a communications network, in which the user preference information may be available for a subset of users within the network. The method comprises generating individual user attribute vectors, based on user historical data and estimating user preference information. The method further comprises defining a community structure for the network and generating a stacked representation for users, the representation comprising the user attribute vector augmented with an aggregated vector of estimated user preferences of members of the user's community. The method further comprises learning a function relating the stacked representation to user preference, using the subset of users, and applying the learned function to users outside the subset.