US Patent:
20160203523, Jul 14, 2016
Inventors:
- San Francisco CA, US
Yize Li - San Francisco CA, US
Adithya Shricharan Rao Srinivasa - San Francisco CA, US
Ding Zhou - Milpitas CA, US
Joseph Fernandez - San Francisco CA, US
Prantik Bhattacharyya - San Francisco CA, US
International Classification:
G06Q 30/02
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
The system relates to a system and apparatus for a scalable engineering system deployed in production that mines topical interests from multiple social networks and assigns over tens of thousands of topics to hundreds of millions of users on a daily basis. The system extracts and analyzes features for topic inference that extend beyond authored text. The system uses a diverse set of features and cross network information can lead to a better understanding of a user's interests. This system focuses on assigning topics for a user that other users can socially recognize and acknowledge.