Flickr/Yahoo! Files Patent for “Interestingness”
From Boing Boing, with a link to the actual patent application.
Here’s the abstract of the patent application:
Interestingness ranking of media objects
Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as “interestingness.” These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media object, access patterns related to the media object, and/or a lapse of time related to the media object.
Boing Boing mentions that there may exist prior art in this area. The comment says: “There’s a very large number of papers in the image processing and collaborative filtering areas that all define various notions of relevance, interestingness, salience, or novelty. A specific innovative technique might be patentable, but not the general idea of computing how interesting an image or media object is to a person or set of people.”
January 9th, 2007 at 4:27 am
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