Affinity Based Ranked For Search And Display

Patent №

US 8,606,776

Granted

2013-12-10

Filed 2011

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

4

vision · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13170077

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for affinity based ranking and display of digital photographs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identifier that identifies a first user; accessing data defining relationships of the first user to second users; accessing digital photographs; determining digital photographs that are each associated with one or more of the first user and the second users; for each digital photograph, generating a photograph score based on the association with one or more of the first user and the second users and corresponding affinity scores representing the relationships of the first user to the second users; ordering the digital photographs according photograph scores; and providing one or more of the digital photographs to a user device of the first user according to the order.

VisionKnowledge representationPlanningEvolutionary computationG06F 16/54G06F 16/24575G06F 16/24578G06F 16/58G06F 16/583G06F 16/5854G06V 20/30Y10S 707/915

AI classification

Vision1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.91
Machine learning0.03
AI hardware0.03
Natural language0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 279020318

Assignors

STEINER, MATTHEW S., STEINER, MATTHEW S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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