Patent Document ID: 20140214850
Application ID: 14231238
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method in a content recommendation system, the method comprising: processing a corpus of content items to determine, for each of the content items, multiple corresponding entities referenced by the content item, each of the determined entities being electronically represented by the content recommendation system; determining, for each of at least some of the content items, at least one corresponding category that is part of a taxonomy represented as a graph stored by the content recommendation system and that is associated with one of the multiple corresponding entities referenced by the content item, wherein determining the at least one corresponding category includes aggregating common nodes in taxonomic paths that are associated respectively with a first determined entity and a second determined entity that are part of the graph such that the corresponding category relates the first and second determined entities in an is-a relation, a part-of relation, or a member-of relation; and storing, for each of the content items, the determined multiple corresponding entities and the determined at least one corresponding category.