Patent 12130946 was granted and assigned to Turner Broadcasting System on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems for recommending content to a client device operated by a user include receiving a set of ratings for each of a first set of content items by a user from a client device for use in a factor model. The set of ratings is not maintained in the server for longer than necessary to calculate a rating vector and/or to update a matrix factor defined by the rank of the factor model and a total number of content items eligible for ranking.