COMPETITIVE FRIEND RANKING FOR COMPUTERIZED SOCIAL NETWORKING
First Claim
1. A competitive friend ranking method comprising:
- monitoring interactions between different friends and a profile in a social network;
ranking each of the different friends according to the monitored interactions; and
,adjusting a display of at least a portion of the different friends in the profile in order of most highly ranked friends.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to favorite friends in a computerized social network and provide a method, system and computer program product for competitive favorite friend ranking for social networking services In one embodiment of the invention, a competitive friend ranking method can be provided. The method can include monitoring interactions between different friends and a profile in a social network. The method also can include ranking each of the different friends according to the monitored interactions. Thereafter the method can include adjusting a display of at least a portion of the different friends in the profile in order of most highly ranked friends.
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1. A competitive friend ranking method comprising:
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monitoring interactions between different friends and a profile in a social network; ranking each of the different friends according to the monitored interactions; and
,adjusting a display of at least a portion of the different friends in the profile in order of most highly ranked friends. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A social networking system configured for competitive friend ranking, the system comprising:
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a data store of profiles, each of the profiles comprising a friend list of friends displaying the friends in rank order; a social networking service coupled to the data store of profiles; and
,a friend ranking engine comprising program code enabled to rank the friends in the friend list according to monitored interactions for each profile for interacting ones of the friends. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for competitive friend ranking, the computer program product comprising:
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computer usable program code for monitoring interactions between different friends and a profile in a social network; computer usable program code for ranking each of the different friends according to the monitored interactions; and
,computer usable program code for adjusting a display of at least a portion of the different friends in the profile in order of most highly ranked friends. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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