Patent ID: 9460219
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for selecting content for display to a user in a travel system, the method comprising: maintaining a plurality of tribes, each tribe comprising a predefined categorization of users of the travel system; receiving a request for content from the user; accessing a user tribe vector comprising a set of weights associated with the request for content, each weight comprising a measure of the user's interest in a different tribe of the plurality of tribes; identifying a set of content objects based on the received request; for each identified content object: ranking the content objects of the set of content objects based on the determined overall scores; selecting a threshold number of content objects from the set of content objects for display to the user as recommended content objects based on the ranking of content objects; and updating a display on a device associated with the user to display the selected threshold number of content objects.