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 10:
10. A computer readable storage medium, having a program recorded thereon, wherein the program when executed is to make the computer system execute the method according to claim 1 .