Patent ID: 8700617

Claim:
A computer implemented method for managing resources, said resources including content resources and people resources, wherein said resources are modeled like a network having a plurality of nodes, comprising: maintaining the plurality of nodes representing said resources, said nodes including content nodes and person nodes and are linked according to their semantic relationships, wherein each node of said nodes contains a resource reference for referencing a resource; maintaining links representing relationships between the resources, said links including links between content nodes, between person nodes and between content and person nodes, each link comprising node references to identify the nodes in the relationships and an importance value to identify an importance of the relationship; presenting an interface for selecting one of the content nodes or person nodes by a user; changing, in response to a single selected node being selected by the user, importance values of certain ones of the links, wherein some of the certain ones of the links are set to have a higher importance value and other of the certain ones of the links are set to have a lower importance value; determining, in response to the single selected node being selected by the user, a node having a likelihood of subsequent selection based on the importance value of the node's link to the selected node; accessing a user navigation history of time-stamped user requests for previously requested nodes requested by the user; and dynamically modifying the importance value of the link to the selected node using the user navigation history; wherein the estimating step comprises building a nomination list of nodes using a first nominator and voting on the nomination list of nodes using a first voter and a second voter, wherein the first voter votes for one of the nominated nodes with a value based upon the importance of the link between the nominated node and the selected node, wherein the second voter votes according to the importance of the link between the user node and the nominated node, and wherein the first nominator nominates every node that has a link from the selected node.