US 12,455,933 B2
Social media platform with recommendation engine refresh
Jordan Furlong, Los Angeles, CA (US); Han Cheng, Beijing (CN); Ciaran Farley, Culver City, CA (US); Alan Yee, Culver City, CA (US); Isha Mukesh Shah, Los Angeles, CA (US); Riley Gish, Culver City, CA (US); Amanda Hanna, Culver City, CA (US); Jinyi Lu, Culver City, CA (US); Wenrong Zhang, Beijing (CN); Yiming Chen, Beijing (CN); and Tsz Ling Christina Leung, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by Lemon Inc., Grand Cayman (KY); and Douyin Vision Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/935,902.
Prior Publication US 2024/0104149 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 50/00 (2024.01)
CPC G06F 16/9535 (2019.01) [G06Q 50/01 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system, comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored in memory to:
provide a social media platform configured to serve a content feed to a user computing device of a user;
generate user content interaction information by detecting user interactions with the content feed;
provide a recommendation engine that selects content items for display in the content feed based on the generated user content interaction information and user information including at least a user identification for the user;
receive a refresh request to refresh the recommendation engine;
in response to receiving the refresh request, refresh the recommendation engine at least in part by masking or resetting the user content interaction information and the user information including the user identification; and
after masking or resetting, unmask at least part of the user content interaction information and the user information based on a number of views of post-refresh content items by the user.