Patent ID: 11928116
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A device for boosting news posts in an organization news site comprising:
a processor; and
a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of:
displaying one or more news posts of the organization news site on a graphical user interface for a user;
in response to the user selecting one news post, providing a boost parameter input on the graphical user interface that allows the user to set at least one boost parameter applicable to just the one news post:
displaying on the graphical user interface the selected one news post in a list with other news posts;
allowing the user to move the one news post up or down in the list to change a display priority of the one news post up or down relative to the other news posts; and
displaying the one news post with the display priority in a ranked news feed of an organization member with a rank of the one news post in the news feed determined by the at least one boost parameter set by the user.