United States Patent ( 10 ) Patent No . : US 9 , 626 , 685 B 2

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Kahelin, Michael Tran, Tho Dinh
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OTHER PUBLICATIONS patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Go With the Flow, The Economist Technology Quarterly, vol. 382, U.S.C. 154(b) by 921 days. Issue 8519, pp. 18-19, (Mar. 10, 2007). Continued (21) Appl. No.: 11/969,751 (Continued) Primary Examiner — Hosain Alam (22) Filed: Jan. 4, 2008 Assistant Examiner — Tuan-Khanh Phan O O (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — James J. DeCarlo: (65) Prior Publication Data Greenberg Traurig, LLP US 2009/O177644 A1 Jul. 9, 2009 (57) ABSTRACT (51) Int. Cl. The disclosure describes systems and methods of ranking G06O 30/02 (2012.01) user interest in physical entities based on the attention given (52) U.S. Cl. to those entities as determined by an analysis of communi CPC . G06O 30/02 (2013.01) cations from devices over multiple communication chan 58) Field of Classification Search nels. The attention ranking systems allow any “Who, What, ( S None When, Where' entity to be defined and ranked based, at least See application file for complete search history. in part, on information obtained from communications between users and user proxy devices. An entity rank is generated for entity known to the system in which the entity (56) References Cited
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