Patent Document ID: 7694227
Application ID: 11437750

Base Claim:
1. A method of obtaining a list of resource links indexed by categories in a interlinked category structure to be presented to a user via a user interface, the resource links pointing to resources on a network, the method comprising the following steps to be carried out by a computer system: monitoring users' interactions with resource links by: for users' interaction with a category in the interlinked category structure, generating a usage entry in a usage table on a server computer, wherein each usage entry includes a set of activity parameters including a link ID and a user ID; analyzing a user's interaction with the resource links placed in said category, including retrieving, from the usage table, the user's entries for resource links within said category; and calculating a user rating for the user in said category; rating resource links from categories in the category structure, the rating including: retrieving resource links placed within a given category; and rating the retrieved resource links using accumulated sets of activity parameters in the usage table, the resource links' ratings being based on calculated user ratings of a plurality of users who have previously interacted with a resource link within the given category.

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Claim 14:
14. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the calculation of a user rating within said one category comprises obtaining ratings of resource links in said category that the user has accessed, and the calculated user rating is based at least in part on the obtained resource link ratings.