Patent ID: 8234280
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for generating groups of users accessing content, the method comprising: generating one or more shards, a shard identifier being associated with each shard; determining a substring of the shard identifier associated with the shard based on a sharding parameter; receiving a user identifier associated with a user accessing the content; associating the user with the shard; generating groups of users based on the substring of the shard identifier; determining whether a number of users included in the generated groups exceeds a maximum number of users; in response to determining whether the number of users included in one of the groups exceeds the maximum number of users, modifying the sharding parameter and determining a second substring of the shard identifier based on the modified sharding parameter; and generating modified groups based on the second substring of the shard identifier.