Patent ID: 9646109
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of generating automatic recommendations for human readable content sources to a first user with a computing system comprising: (a) processing a set of first ratings from the first user for a plurality of first content sources with the computing system, each of the first content sources including at least one of a human author, a non-human entity, or a social network contact, to derive a first set of interests for said first user; (b) establishing a first user profile for the first user based on said step (a), the first user profile containing the ratings and the first set of interests derived for the first user for said one or more first user selected human readable content source entities; (c) processing a set of second ratings from one or more second users for said first content source, to derive a second set of interests for said second users; (d) correlating said set of first ratings with said set of second ratings using the computing system to predict a selected set of second users for inclusion as human readable content source entities within said first user profile; (e) generating an automatic recommendation with a recommender system operating on the computing system or another computing system which identifies to the first user both: 1) Phone or more of said selected set of second users to said first user; and 2) one or more of the second set of interests based at least in part on step (c); and (f) modifying said first user profile upon receiving a confirmation from the first user to include one or more of said selected set of second users and/or one or more of the second set of interests.