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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Jan Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Vught, NL;
FUNKE DIGITAL TV GUIDE GMBH, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of operating a recommender system arranged for being coupled to a computer implemented social network (). The present invention furthermore relates to a corresponding computer program and to a corresponding recommender system () arranged for being coupled to a computer implemented social network (). In particular, the present invention relates to a recommender system () being configured to provide a recommendation () relating to a content item being highly discussed in the social network (), without the recommendation being necessarily based on some kind of a correlation between characteristics of a recipient () of the recommendation on the one side and characteristics of content items to be recommended and/or characteristics of contacts/friends of the recipient () on the other side.