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A method and system are provided for ranking search results based on user preferences. The method includes monitoring user selections in response to user receipt of search results and tracking metadata related to user selections for user selections that exhibit a threshold satisfaction level. The method additionally includes storing the tracked metadata as user preferences and adjusting a ranking mechanism to increase the weight of user preferences in order to increase a ranking for search results that exhibit user preferences. The method additionally includes storing the user selections and the keyword search upon determining that the user selections exceed a threshold satisfaction level. The method may utilize the stored user selections and keyword search upon receiving a repeat search to alter presentation of new search results to the user.

An icon-based interactive public figure profile, search, status update delivery, and matching system and method configured within open and exclusive public figure social network platforms and technologies enabling a public figure and fan to generate a personalized interactive icon-based profile representing icon profile elements optimized for display and functionality on mobile devices. The icon profile system utilizes and integrates selected personalized icon profile elements and associated data for searching, compatibility matching, invitations, services, advertisements, communities, and calendar functions. In public figure social network environments icon elements and exclusive celebrity social environments are unitized to aggregate fans based on a selected icon profile element and in further environments automatically compare and report compatibility between all unknown users which vastly improves social network functionality.

Short-range commercial messaging and advertising systems and mobile devices for use therein allow merchants to deliver advertising over wireless networks to mobile devices operated by roaming consumers who are in the vicinity of the merchant. A distinguishing feature of the systems and mobile devices is that they eliminate traditional advertising intermediaries, such as television, radio and Internet networks, allowing businesses to advertise directly to consumers at dramatically lower costs relative to traditional advertising.

An object of the invention is to eliminate a program having a high general preference, and recommend a program customized to a preference of a specific user. A reserved information receiver (230) in a program recommendation server (3) receives reserved information transmitted by a program viewing terminal. A reserved information DB (235) stores the reserved information with respect to each of the users. A community reserved information statistics section (236) defines the users as a first group, based on the received reserved information, and the reserved information stored with respect to each of the users. A total user reserved information statistics section (237) defines the users as a second group including the first group. A recommended program creator (239) generates recommended information customized to the first group, based on an aggregate calculation result of the reserved information of the users belonging to the first group, and an aggregate calculation result of the reserved information of the users belonging to the second group. A recommendation transmitter (240) transmits the recommended information to the program viewing terminal. The program viewing terminal reproduces a program based on the recommended information.

ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting a mode input by a driver, detecting an accelerator opening degree TA to calculate an operation potential Pta based on the accelerator opening degree TA and an accelerator operation speed dTA, counting the number of times Pta exceeds a threshold value set according to a mode, as COUNT value, and learning a driver intention level in a sport direction when COUNT value is equal to or greater than the threshold value set according to a mode.

The disclosure relates generally to a system and a method for eliciting information from a user by reducing the dimensionality of an item preference data and computing user preferences based on question responses received from the user. The questions include information about pseudo-independent items based on the reduced dimensionality item preference data. The recommendation system and method are operable to make item recommendations to a group of users and for initiating a transaction involving at least one of the recommended items.

An object of the present invention is to provide a high-preference game system that can reduce a game development burden of a game system operator, can increase the desire of a player to iteratively play a game, and enables a player to play a game without aversion.

When a player requests a game open in a dungeon, 5 points among the points retained by the player is consumed, and 3 points are temporarily pooled in the dungeon. When the player succeeds in satisfying a clear condition of the dungeon, a total of 13 temporarily-pooled and not pooled points is added to a retention point of the player. Also, when the player fails to satisfy the clear condition of the dungeon, the temporarily pooled points are pooled in the dungeon.

The present invention has objects to provide a method of lowering the unpleasant taste and/or smell of compositions, and an agent for lowering unpleasant taste and/or smell. The objects are solved by providing a method of lowering unpleasant taste and/or smell, comprising a step of incorporating an saccharide derivative of α,α-trehalose in compositions; a composition with lowered unpleasant taste and/or smell, obtainable by the method; and an agent for lowering unpleasant taste and/or smell, comprising an saccharide derivatives of α,α-trehalose as an effective ingredients.

The demand for earlier independence among children, greater functional independence by the disabled, confident living by the adult aloof, and longer independent living by the elderly is increasing among individuals, family members, and society. Proper apparel use is a key part of independent living. Interactive apparel incorporates static and dynamic Indicators, Manipulators, and devices integrated within or positioned in, on, or about apparel to teach and aid wearers in initiating and maintaining proper apparel function and fashion. Disclosed is interactive apparel to teach and aid proper use without undue situational and apparel knowledge, without undue physical demands, and without undue secondary action.

The invention provides a Fischer-Tropsch jet fuel refining process which has a jet fuel yield in excess of 60% by mass, said process including at least four of the following five conversion processes: a. hydrocracking one or more of a FT kerosene and heavier material fraction and a C9 and heavier FT syncrude fraction; b. oligomerising an FT syncrude fraction including hydrocarbons in the range C2 to C8; c. hydrotreating one or more of an FT syncrude fraction, a product from process b., and an alkylated FT syncrude fraction; d. aromatizing one or more of an FT syncrude fraction including hydrocarbons in the range C2 to C8, a product from process a., a product from process b, a product from process c., and a product from an aromatic alkylation process; and e. alkylating one or more of an FT syncrude fraction including hydrocarbons in the C2 to C6 range, a product from process b., and a product from process d.

Light sources that emit light having enhanced color spectrum characteristics are described. A color metric called the Lighting Preference Index (LPI) is disclosed that enables quantitative optimization of color preference by tailoring the spectral power distribution of the light source. In an embodiment, a lamp includes at least one blue light source having peak wavelength in the range of about 400 nanometer (nm) to about 460 nm, at least one green or yellow-green light source having peak wavelength in the range of about 500 nm to about 580 nm, and at least one red light source having peak wavelength in the range of about 600 nm to about 680 nm, wherein the lamp has an LPI of at least 120.

The present invention relates to an advertising system and method using an in-App advertisement module, which is capable of displaying an advertisement on a lock screen through an advertisement module which is inserted in one or more application and is installed in parallel to the applications and distributing saved rewards to the applications according to a user input through the lock screen on which the advertisement is displayed, thereby allowing the saved rewards to be used as points.

The invention discloses a method for improving growth and drought-resistant ability of wheat by using arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to bring the reciprocal symbiosis relation between AM fungi and host plants under drought stress into play reasonably and efficiently. According to the method, the AM fungi having a close symbiotic relation with the wheat are selectively used, and the symbiotic relation between the AM fungi and the wheat is built in a condition control mode to promote the wheat growth and improve drought adaptability. The AM fungi comprise one of glomus monosporum and acaulospora laevis, the two kinds of AM fungi are respectively propagated in an expanding mode in an expanding propagation matrix by using red clovers, and then two AM fungi inoculants and the wheat are cultured together in a symbiotic culture medium. The effective path for profitable symbiosis of the AM fungi and the host plants in adversity conditions is provided, the infection and symbiosis relation with the host plants of the AM fungi is improved in a man-made mode, and the yield of dry crops is improved.

The present invention relates to a system for determining a user psychology index based on user situation information and user profile information and recommending an advice needed for a user according to the determined psychology index.

The advice recommendation system according to the present invention determines a user psychology index based on user situation information and user profile information, and the advice recommendation system may correctly diagnose a psychological state of a user and recommend suitable advice for overcoming the diagnosed psychological state. In addition, the advice recommendation system according to the present invention periodically collects user situation information and determines personalized tendency of a user toward the collected user situation information, and thus the advice recommendation system may correctly recommend personalized advice to the user.

The invention discloses a personalized scenic spot recommendation method based on tourist preference modeling, and the method comprises the steps: collecting data, carrying out the preprocessing, and carrying out the numbering of tourists, scenic spots and other objects; converting the display score into an implicit score, and dividing a positive case scenic spot and a negative case scenic spot; constructing a triple and scenic spot knowledge map, and generating a feature vector and a context feature vector of each scenic spot; generating vector representations of historical tourist tour scenic spots and candidate scenic spots through the KCNN; calculating an influence weight of each historical touring scenic spot of the tourist through the attention network to obtain a preference vector of the tourist to the scenic spot; calculating the scenic spot touring probability of the tourists by using the DNN, and generating scenic spot recommendation lists of the tourists according to the probability from small to large. According to the method, when different influences of historical visiting scenic spots of tourists on the candidate scenic spots are depicted and diversification preferences of the tourists are represented, the attention network is used for calculating the influence weights of the historical visiting scenic spots of the tourists on the candidate scenic spots, so that the recommendation result better conforms to the preferences of the tourists.

Embodiments of the invention provide an advertisement display method and device. The method comprises the steps of acquiring user behavior information; according to the user behavior information, generating a plurality of feature identifiers for a user; generating a weight value corresponding to each feature identifier; when a user video is played, performing target object recognition on a scene of the current played video; and when a target object is recognized, displaying an advertisement of a target commodity associated with the target object in the current played video. According to the advertisement display method and device, the user can be more easily interested to the target commodity displayed in the advertisement, so that the display accuracy of the advertisement is improved.

The invention aims at providing a method and device for constructing a cross-domain migration depth network. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining sample data of a user within one or more product fields, wherein the sample data comprises personal information of the user, product information and historical interaction information of the user and the product; performing data processingon the sample data to obtain characteristic data, and constructing a training data set according to the characteristic data; constructing a relation layer of the cross-domain migration depth network,wherein the relation layer comprises an input layer, an embedded layer, a hidden layer and an output layer; based on the constructed relation layer, training the cross-domain migration depth networkaccording to the training data set to obtain a trained cross-domain migration depth network; and the behavior data of the user on different field products can be analyzed and mined, thereby overcomingthe problem of data sparsity and cold boot and obtaining more comprehensive user preference.

The invention discloses a project recommendation method based on a recommendation system. The method includes: calculating the preference of each user for each project according to the scoring data ofeach user for each project and the average scoring data of each project; integrating each preference value with the corresponding scoring data to obtain the association weights of each user for eachproject; building user-project bigraph between users and projects based on association weights; based on the random walk algorithm for the user-project bigraph, obtaining the first recommended projectlist by random walks in the second part of the project diagram. The invention comprehensively considers the overall score of the project and the preference degree of the user to make recommendation,so that the finally obtained first recommendation project list not only includes hot projects, but also includes projects which are partially preferred by the user but have low overall score. Therefore, the diversity of project recommendation is improved.

A user device comprises an access interface (109) for accessing a web service by exchanging information with the web service over the Internet (105). An application processor (107) executes a user application accessing the web service through the access interface (109) and the Internet (105). The application processor (107) is connected to an ontology processor (111) which determines an ontology associated with at least some of the information exchanged with the web service. For example, the ontology may relate to a data structure of data objects communicated between the application processor (107) and the web service. The user device (101) further comprises a preference detector (113) which determines a user preference indication in response to the ontology and the exchanged information. The preference detector (113) is connected to a preference processor (115) which determines a user preference in response to the user preference indication.

A computer system includes a computer device and a power adapter. The computer device is provided with a first signal connector. The power adapter includes a second signal connector, a rectifier and an input/output board module. The second signal connector is pluggably connected to the first signal connector. The input/output board module is electrically connected to the second signal connector for being detachably connected to an external device so as to allow signals to be exchanged between the computer device and the external device.

The present invention discloses methods and compositions for modulating the quality of an immune response to a target antigen in a mammal, which response results from the expression of a polynucleotide that encodes at least a portion of the target antigen, wherein the quality is modulated by replacing at least one codon of the polynucleotide with a synonymous codon that has a higher or lower preference of usage by the mammal to confer the immune response than the codon it replaces.