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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2008
Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marc Eliot Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher William Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Joseph James O'sullivan, Oakland, CA (US);
Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marc Eliot Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher William Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Joseph James O'Sullivan, Oakland, CA (US);
EXCALIBUR IP, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure describes systems and methods of ranking user interest in physical entities based on the attention given to those entities as determined by an analysis of communications from devices over multiple communication channels. The attention ranking systems allow any 'Who, What, When, Where' entity to be defined and ranked based, at least in part, on information obtained from communications between users and user proxy devices. An entity rank is generated for entity known to the system in which the entity rank is derived from the information in communications that are indicative of user actions related to the entity. The entity ranks are then used to modify the display of information or data associated with the entities. The system may also generate a personal rank for each entity based on the relation of the entity to a specified user.