Patent ID: 6606619
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for facilitating browsing of hierarchical browse structure that comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein leaf nodes represent items and non-leaf nodes represent item categories, the system comprising:a tracking component that monitors and records user actions of a plurality of users to generate user activity data, said user actions including actions reflective of user affinities for specific nodes of the hierarchical browse structure; an analysis component that analyzes the user activity data and generates scores for specific nodes of the hierarchical browse structure; and a node elevation component that uses the scores to select specific nodes of the hierarchical browse structure to elevate for display to users; wherein, by elevating a selected node for display to a user, the node elevation component enables the user to view the selected node during browsing of the hierarchical browse structure without drilling down within the hierarchical browse structure to a level of the selected node.