Patent ID: 7072846
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method upon a networked computer system including client and server computers for facilitating the creating and optimization of a database system for managing clusters representing a cluster of works, ordered so that the works represented in a given cluster are selected to be consistent with the tastes of a particular plurality of users having similar tastes to one another, said method comprising: Displaying registration user interface elements for enabling individuals to register where, by becoming users, individuals have the ability to log on from remote client computers to a server computer; Accepting input through said registration user interface elements whereby a database is updated with logon information for said users; Displaying logon user interface elements for enabling said users to long on to said networked computer system; Carrying out logon requests received through said logon user interface elements; Creating new clusters in the database system, wherein said creating comprises specifying at least one work using at least one from the group consisting of automatically creating clusters in the database system by execution of a cluster creating software algorithm and creating clusters in the database system in accordance with input of logged on users obtained through cluster specification user interface elements; Receiving suggestions from said users for changing the composition of said clusters such that, overall, individual clusters each better match the tastes of a particular plurality of users; Executing a software algorithm which determines whether a suggested possible change in the clustering would, overall, better or worsen said clusters' ability to each match the tastes of a particular plurality of users who share similar tastes; Implementing at least one of said changes in at least one database of the database system; and Displaying selected attributes of selected ones of a plurality of clusters such that said displaying is viewable by a plurality of said users.