US 11,989,191 B2
Electronic content ranking based on distribution and consumption
Blair Livingston, Toronto (CA); and Matt Ball, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to QUANTIFY LABS, INC., Toronto (CA)
Filed by QUANTIFY LABS, INC., Toronto (CA)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/544,501.
Application 17/544,501 is a continuation of application No. 16/413,897, filed on May 16, 2019, granted, now 11,226,973.
Application 16/413,897 is a continuation of application No. 14/815,140, filed on Jul. 31, 2015, granted, now 10,339,145, issued on Jul. 2, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/031,934, filed on Aug. 1, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0092074 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/24578 (2019.01) [G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A content distribution system comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
control distribution of content items provided by content producer computers to content consumer computers via messages communicated over a computer network;
track indications of different interactions with content items contained in the messages, the different interactions with content items occurring at the content consumer computers;
index content items and output ranked indications of at least some indexed content items in response to search queries, and track indications of different interactions with indexed content items occurring at the content consumer computers; and
rank the content items based on the received indications of different interactions with content items occurring at the content consumer computers and further based on an influence factor specific to a content consumer at a respective content consumer computer, wherein a high influence factor increases the rank.