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Delegated search of content in accounts linked to social overlay system

  • US 9,183,305 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2007
  • Issued: 11/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a set of keywords from a user subscribed to one or more social networking services, wherein the user has one or more personalized profiles in the one or more social networking service;

    searching, by a hardware processor, one or more accounts of the user in the one or more social networking services in view of the set of keywords received from the user and the one or more personalized profiles of the user in the one or more social networking services;

    associating, by the hardware processor, federated search results with the one or more social networking services;

    generating a results events stream comprising one or more blocks, each of the one or more blocks comprising information about the federated search results from the one or more social networking services;

    assigning a unique identifier to the user;

    associating the unique identifier to an identity resource;

    displaying the results events stream, a name of the user and the identity resource associated with the user in view of the unique identifier;

    determining an activity level of each of the one or more blocks;

    modifying a size of each of the one or more blocks in view of the activity level; and

    displaying the one or more modified blocks.

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