Patent ID: 9454781
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: selecting a subset of content items from a set of content items, each content item of the set having at least one attribute; for each content item of the subset, querying a user to obtain a numeric subjective value; deriving an equation, the equation relating the at least one attribute of each content item of the subset to the subjective value of each content item of the subset, the equation being derived by regression analysis to find coefficients for estimation of the subjective value of each content item from the at least one attribute of each content item or by correlation analysis to find statistically significant correlations between the at least one attribute of each content item and the subjective value of each content item; applying the equation to each content item of the set to determine a numeric calculated value of each content item of the set, the equation having at least one attribute of each content item of the set as input and the calculated value of each content item of the set as output; determining a ranking of the set of content items based on the calculated value of each content item; and providing recommendations to a user based on the ranking.