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Selective delivery of social network messages within a social network

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  • US 8,825,777 B2
  • Filed: 10/05/2011
  • Issued: 09/02/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of managing electronic communications within a social group of a social network, comprising:

  • monitoring messages communicated within the social group;

    determining content shared by a number of messages communicated within the social group, wherein the number of messages sharing the determined content satisfies at least one of;

    a growth rate of the number of messages meets or exceeds a growth rate threshold; and

    the number of messages meets or exceeds a message quantity threshold;

    determining whether one or more new messages to be communicated to one or more members of the social group comprises content similar to the determined content; and

    selectively adjusting notification of the one or more new messages to the one or more members of the social group in response to determining that the one or more new messages to be communicated to the one or more members of the social group comprises content similar to the determined content.

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