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Facet-based filtering of social network update data

  • US 9,721,310 B2
  • Filed: 03/06/2015
  • Issued: 08/01/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a machine-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions; and

    one or more processors in communication with the machine-readable medium that, having executed the computer-executable instructions, are configured to;

    transmit a plurality of facet-filter selection panels to a device in communication with a social-networking service, at least one facet-filter selection panel comprising a plurality of facet-filter selections wherein each facet-filter selection identifies a corresponding criterion by which to filter information shared by a first plurality of users with the social-networking service;

    receive a selection of at least one facet-filter selection from a facet-filter selection panel selected from the plurality of facet-filter selection panels, the at least one facet-filter selection identifying a second plurality of users selected from the first plurality of users;

    filter the information shared by the first plurality of users according to the received at least one facet-filter selection to obtain filtered information, the filtered information comprising a plurality of trending articles, wherein each article is ranked according to its popularity among the first plurality of users; and

    transmit the filtered information to the device for display.

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