Presenting content items relevant to a group of users

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10025476-B2
Application number	US-201414281381-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 19, 2014
Priority date	Apr 14, 2010
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

In a method of ranking or filtering new content items for presentation to members of a group of users of a social-networking service, content items that are candidates for presentation to the members are received. A user of the social-networking service is enabled to serve as a curator of the candidates, with the enabling including enabling the user to scroll through subsets of the candidates in a carousel user interface to indicate an opinion of the user with respect to an importance to the group of each of one or more candidates. One or more of the candidates are presented to the members of the group based on the opinion of the user with respect to the candidates.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
creating a group comprising a self-organized subset of users of a social-networking service, the subset of the users including a set of administrators, a set of curators, and a set of members;
receiving an association between a content source and the group from an administrator of the set of administrators, an ability to specify the association being a special privilege of the set of administrators;
receiving content items from the content source as candidates for presentation to the set of members;
based on an accessing of the group by a curator of the set of curators, enabling the curator to indicate an opinion of the curator with respect to an importance to the set of members of the group of each of one or more of the candidates, the enabling including presenting the candidates in a carousel user interface, the carousel user interface enabling the curator to scroll through the candidates and engage with a user interface mechanism to perform an action with respect to each of the candidates; and
based on an accessing of the group by a member of the set of members, presenting a subset of the one or more of the candidates to the member in an additional carousel user interface, the subset filtered from the one or more candidates based on the opinion of the curator of the importance to the group of each of the one or more candidates.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising prioritizing the candidates for presentation to the curator in the carousel user interface based in part on a level of activity of connections of the curator with respect to the candidates.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising prioritizing the candidates for presentation to the curator in the carousel user interface based in part on a level of importance to the group of the source of the candidates.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the enabling of the curator is dependent upon determining that the curator is also one of the set of members.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the enabling of the curator is based on the curator having a better reputation among the set of curators than an additional curator of the set of curators.

6. A system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memories;
one or more engines incorporated into the one or more memories, the one or more engines configuring the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
creating a group comprising a self-organized subset of users of a social-networking service, the subset of the users including a set of administrators, a set of curators, and a set of members;
receiving an association between a content source and the group from an administrator of the set of administrators, an ability to specify the association being a special privilege of the set of administrators;
receiving content items from the content source as candidates for presentation to the set of members;
based on an accessing of the group by a curator of the set of curators, enabling the curator to indicate an opinion of the curator with respect to an importance to the set of members of the group of each of one or more of the candidates, the enabling including presenting the candidates in a carousel user interface, the carousel user interface enabling the curator to scroll through the candidates and engage with a user interface mechanism to perform an action with respect to each of the candidates;
based on an accessing of the group by a member of the set of members, presenting one or more of the candidates to the member in an additional carousel user interface, the subset filtered from the one or more candidates based on the opinion of the curator of the importance to the group of each of the one or more candidates.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise prioritizing the candidates for presentation to the curator in the carousel user interface based in part on a level of activity of connections of the curator with respect to the candidates.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the carousel engine is further configured to prioritize the candidates for presentation to the curator in the carousel user interface based in part on a level of importance to the group of the source of the candidates.

9. The method system of claim 6 , wherein the enabling of the curator is dependent upon determining that the curator is also one of the set of members of the group.

10. The method system of claim 6 , wherein enabling of the curator is based on the curator having more influence over members of the group than an additional curator of the set of curators.

11. A non-transitory machine readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
creating a group comprising a self-organized subset of users of a social-networking service, the subset of the users including a set of administrators, a set of curators, and a set of members;
receiving an association between a content source and the group from an administrator of the set of administrators, an ability to specify the association being a special privilege of the set of administrators;
receiving content items from the content source as candidates for presentation to the set of members;
based on an accessing of the group by a curator of the set of curators, enabling the curator to indicate an opinion of the curator with respect to an importance to the set of members of the group of each of one or more of the candidates, the enabling including presenting the candidates in a carousel user interface, the carousel user interface enabling the curator to scroll through the candidates and engage with a user interface mechanism to perform an action with respect to each of the candidates; and
based on an accessing of the group by a member of the set of members, presenting a subset of the one or more of the candidates to the member in an additional carousel user interface, the subset filtered from the one or more candidates based on the opinion of the curator of the importance to the group of each of the one or more candidates.

12. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11 , further comprising prioritizing the candidates for presentation to the curator in the carousel user interface based in part on a level of activity of connections of the curator with respect to the candidates.

13. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11 , further comprising prioritizing the candidates for presentation to the curator in the carousel user interface based in part on a level of importance to the group of the source of the candidates.

14. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the enabling of the curator is dependent upon determining that the curator is also one of the set of members.

15. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the enabling of the curator is based on the curator having a better reputation among the set of curators than an additional curator of the set of curators.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Barker Adam
• Mccarthy Ian
• Brough Hans
• Richards James
• Kristian John
• Powers Jason
• Meridian Julie

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06F16/1834

  implemented based on peer-to-peer networks, e.g. gnutella (p2p communication protocols H04L67/104) · CPC title

• G06F16/1805

  Append-only file systems, e.g. using logs or journals to store data · CPC title

• G06F3/04845 Primary

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• H04L12/1813

  for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms (instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15) · CPC title