Patent ID: 8108417
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of providing a recommendation in response to a user query, the method comprising: providing a human-generated list archive comprising a plurality of ordered human-generated lists, wherein each human-generated list comprises a plurality of objects and each object has an associated rank; determining a first relationship between objects in a first human-generated list of the plurality of ordered human-generated lists, wherein the first relationship contains one or more relationship scores based at least in part on a first plurality of object ranks based on the first human-generated list; determining a second relationship between objects in a second human-generated list of the plurality of ordered human-generated lists, wherein the second relationship contains one or more relationship scores based at least in part on a second plurality of object ranks based on the second human-generated list; determining a third relationship between objects in the first and second human-generated lists based upon the first and second relationships; receiving a user query, wherein the user query is associated with a query object vector; matching the query against the human-generated list archive to retrieve a recommendation, wherein matching comprises: providing the recommendation to the user.