Researchers Submit Patent Application, 'Method and System for Providing Recommendations in a Social Network', for Approval

摘要

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Recommender systems enable users to quickly locate the interested items and have become an important tool to overcome the information overload problem. Recommender systems are usually classified into three categories: 1) content based recommendations; 2) Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommendations; and 3) hybrid approaches. Content-based recommendations rely on content descriptions, and match the content with the users preference. Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommendations use the opinions of a set of users to predict another user's interest. The recommendation scheme of the present invention falls into CF recommendation category.