User content presentation based on strength of relationship

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10049472-B1
Application number	US-201414507826-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Oct 6, 2014
Priority date	Oct 6, 2014
Publication date	Aug 14, 2018
Grant date	Aug 14, 2018

Abstract

A system and method for user content presentation, including: receiving, in association with a request to establish a graph relationship between a first account and a second account, a strength of relationship from the first account to the second account, the strength of relationship selected based on input from a user of the first account; selecting, by a computer processor, a delivery attribute associated with the second account based on the strength of relationship, where the delivery attribute is positively correlated with a measure of content authored by the second account to be provided to the first account; selecting content authored by the second account for inclusion in a stream of the first account based on the delivery attribute; and providing the stream of the first account for display on a client computing device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for user content presentation, the method comprising:
receiving, in association with a request to establish a graph relationship between a first account of a messaging platform and a second account of the messaging platform, a strength of relationship value from the first account to the second account, the value computed based on user selection of a position of a slider control user interface element of a client computing device, the slider control user interface element being slidable to receive strength of relationship values within a continuous range of values;
adjusting, by a computer processor, a set of delivery attributes associated with the second account according to a positive correlation with respect to the value, wherein each delivery attribute defines a measure of content authored by the second account to be provided to the first account, wherein the measure of content is a rate limit specifying a threshold maximum number of instances per unit time that content from the second account is included in the stream of the first account, and wherein adjusting the set of delivery attributes includes adjusting the rate limit specifying the maximum number of instances per unit time;
selecting content authored by the second account for inclusion in the message stream of the first account based on the set of delivery attributes including the rate limit; and
providing the message stream of the first account for display on a client computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the content comprises selecting a content type from the second account to be included in the stream of the first account.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a delivery attribute of the set of delivery attributes is selected based on a threshold associated with the strength of relationship.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting content comprises:
identifying a threshold popularity score defined by a delivery attribute of the set of delivery attributes; and
determining that a content popularity score associated with content authored by the second account exceeds the threshold popularity score, wherein the content popularity score is based on engagement by other users with the content, and wherein selecting the content for inclusion in the stream of the first account is further based on the content popularity score exceeding the threshold popularity score.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting content authored by the second account for inclusion in the stream of the first account is further based on:
a content attribute associated with the content authored by the second account;
a content attribute associated with content authored by a third account; and
a strength of relationship between the first account and the third account.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising selecting a message from a third account for inclusion in the stream of the first account based on a strength of relationship from the second account to the third account and the strength of relationship from the first account to the second account.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the value specifies a type of relationship between the first account and the second account and wherein the value is selected based on a set of predetermined types of relationships.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a popularity measure pertaining to the second account in response to receiving the value;
generating a notification message that comprises the popularity measure; and
providing the notification message for display on a client computing device of the second account.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a relationship recommendation in response to receiving the value, wherein the relationship recommendation includes a recommendation to form a graph relationship between the first account of the messaging platform and a third account of the messaging platform;
generating a notification message that comprises the relationship recommendation; and
providing the notification message for display on a client computing device of a third account.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the relationship recommendation is determined using a k-complete graph storing strengths of relationships between a subset of accounts.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a content recommendation in response to receiving the value;
generating a notification message that comprises the content recommendation; and
providing the notification message for display on the client computing device.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the measure of content is positively correlated with a baseline production rate of content authored by the second account.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising adjusting the measure of content in response to a change in the baseline production rate of the second account.

14. A method for user content presentation, the method comprising:
displaying a user adjustable SOR (strength of relationship) slider control user interface element on a client computing device for receiving SOR values within a continuous range of values, wherein the SOR control element enables a user of a first account of a messaging platform to select an SOR value from the first account to a second account of the messaging platform using a slidable user interface;
identifying, by the client computing device, an SOR value based on a selection of a position of the SOR slider control user interface element by the user;
providing, by the client computing device, the value to the messaging platform; and
receiving, by the client computing device, a stream based on a measure of content authored by the second account from the messaging platform, wherein the value is positively correlated with the measure of content, and wherein the measure of content is a rate that limits a maximum number of instances per unit time that content from the second account is included in the stream, wherein the rate is specified based on the position of the user adjustable SOR slider control user interface element.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the SOR slider control user interface element is displayed in response to user interaction with a user interface element displayed on the client computing device corresponding to the second account.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein displaying the SOR slider control user interface element comprises:
displaying a default SOR indication on the client computing device in response to user selection of a user interface element corresponding to the second account on the client computing device; and
displaying the SOR slider control user interface element in response to the user selecting the default SOR indication.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the SOR slider control user interface element depicts a slider control.

18. A system for user content presentation, comprising:
a computer processor;
a strength of relationship (SOR) module executing on the computer processor and configured to:
receive, in association with a request to establish a graph relationship between a first account of a messaging platform and a second account of the messaging platform, a strength of relationship value from the first account to the second account, the value computed based on user selection of a position of a slider control user interface element of a client computing device, the slider control user interface element being slidable to receive strength of relationship values within a continuous range

Assignees

• Twitter Inc

Inventors

• Croom Charles
• Ewing Patrick Henry Sullivan

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

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

• G06T11/26 Primary

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

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  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/22

  Electricity · mapped topic