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Recommending posts to non-subscribing users

  • US 9,930,096 B2
  • Filed: 07/30/2014
  • Issued: 03/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a server system and from a plurality of computing devices, indications that a user of each of the plurality of computing devices requested to subscribe to posts that are authored by a first user;

    receiving, at the server system and from a first computing device, a particular post that was authored by the first user;

    transmitting the particular post from the server system to the plurality of computing devices;

    generating a personalized score that is for the particular post and is specific to a second user that has not requested to receive the posts that are authored by the first user, the generation of the personalized score being based on distances in a social network graph between the second user and the first user and a reputation of the first user, the reputation based on a number of users requesting to receive transmissions of the posts that are authored by the first user, a quantity and a quality of comments on the posts that are authored by the first user, and a reputational score of one or more users that follow the first user;

    determining that the personalized score exceeds a threshold; and

    transmitting, in response to the determining, the particular post from the server system to a second computing device that is associated with the second user.

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