US Patent 11748435 Content-free system and method to recommend news and articles

A computer-implemented method of recommending information sources is provided. The method comprising collecting raw user log data of a browser user and transforming the raw user log data to remove data that is specific to the user, wherein the transformed user log data comprises only general pages visited. A number of key page mappings are appended to the transformed user log data. A machine learning model determines a user interaction function according to the transformed user log data and generates a number of web page recommendations, wherein each web page recommendation has a respective probability of engagement based on the user interaction function. The web page recommendations are then displayed to the user on an interface.