Patent ID: 8583566

Claim:
A computer-implemented user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items in which the presentation is ordered at least in part based on learning periodicities of user selections of content items, the method comprising: providing access to a set of content items, each content item having at least one associated descriptive term to describe the content item; receiving input entered by the user for identifying desired content items; in response to the input, presenting content items to the user; receiving actions from the user resulting in selection of content items from the presented content items; analyzing the descriptive terms associated with the selected content items to identify sets of actions resulting in the selection of similar content items, wherein similarity is determined by comparing the descriptive terms associated with any one of the selected content items with any of the previously selected content items; analyzing a date, day, and time of at least two of the individual selection actions of the sets of actions to learn periodicities of user actions resulting in selections of similar content items, wherein the periodicity corresponding to a particular set of actions for selecting similar content items indicates an amount of time between the user actions of the set; associating the learned periodicities of the sets of actions resulting in the selection of similar content items with the corresponding descriptive terms associated with the similar content items that were selected; subsequent to learning at least one periodicity of actions of the user, selecting and ordering a collection of content items, wherein content items associated with periodicities similar to the date, day, and time of the selection are ordered as more relevant content; and presenting the ordered collection of content items.