Patent Document ID: 20140108439
Application ID: 13650077
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for inferring interests, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, one or more indicators of approval of from a user, each of the one or more indicators having a text corresponding thereto; evaluating, by the computer system, the one or more texts of the one or more indicators and identifying for the one or more texts one or more principal concepts corresponding thereto; for each principal concept of the one or more principal concepts: locating a principal article in the taxonomy corresponding to the principal concept; identifying candidate articles according to linking of the candidate articles relative to the principal article; evaluating similarity of the candidate articles to the principal article; and selecting at least one of the candidate articles according to the evaluation of similarity; generating, by the computer system, recommendations for the user in accordance with concepts associated with the selected at least one of the candidate articles for each of the principal concepts; and transmitting, by the computer system, for display to the user, the recommendations.