Patent ID: 6681247
Filing Date: 2004-01-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for collaborator discovery among a plurality of users including the steps of:(a) providing a user history including a plurality of entries, with each entry including a user identity associated with each particular user and a reference to a particular item accessed by that user; (b) associating particular items in the user history by providing a measure of similarity between the particular items; (c) uniquely associating at least one scent score to each particular item accessed by a particular user; (d) diffusing the at least one scent score associated with a particular item accessed by a particular user to another item by generating at least one diffusion scent score from the combination of the measure of similarity between the particular item and the other item and the at least one scent score, and incorporating the at least one diffusion scent score into the at least one scent score of the other item; (e) repeating step (d) for all items which have at least one scent score; and (f) determining scent match scores by correlating the scent scores from all of the particular items to find users with common interests.