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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Scott Smyers, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Mark Eyer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Scott Smyers, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Mark Eyer, Woodinville, WA (US);
SONY ELECTRONICS INC., Parkridge, NJ (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Particular embodiments provide recommendations based on community affiliation. In one embodiment, the method determines a query from a target user. A community in which the target user is a member is then determined. The community may include a plurality of members that have joined the community based on a common interest. User activity information is analyzed for at least a portion of the members of the community to determine a recommendation for the query. The user activity information is determined to be of interest to the target user based on the target user's membership in the community. For example, based on the user's membership in the community, recommendations as to what other members in the community liked can be correlated to the query for the target user. Thus, the recommendation may be provided to the user based on what other users in the community liked.