Patent ID: 9299059
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more processing devices from a client device of a user, one or more search terms specified by the user; searching, in a social network, for items of social media content that (i) are posted by one or more other users socially connected in the social network within one degree of separation to the user who specified the one or more search terms, and (ii) have at least a predefined amount of relevance to the one or more search terms; identifying, based on searching, a plurality of different items of social media content that (i) are posted by the one or more other users socially connected in the social network within one degree of separation to the user who specified the one or more search terms, and (ii) have at least the predefined amount of relevance to the one or more search terms; identifying, in the plurality of different items of social media content, one or more terms having at least the predefined amount of relevance to at least one of the one or more search terms; identifying one or more previously executed search queries that comprise at least one of the one or more terms identified; re-executing at least one of the one or more previously executed search queries; identifying, based on re-executing, one or more additional items of social media content that (i) are posted by the one or more other users socially connected in the social network within one degree of separation to the user who specified the one or more search terms, and (ii) have at least the predefined amount of relevance to the one or more search terms; and generating, by the one or more processing devices, a summary of (i) content of the plurality of different items of social media content identified based on searching, and (ii) content of the one or more additional items of social media content identified based on re-execution; wherein the summary provides a description of content in at least a subset of the one or more additional items of social media content and the plurality of different items of social media content that are posted by the one or more other users socially connected in the social network within one degree of separation to the user who specified the one or more search terms, and wherein the summary differs from the content in the subset of the plurality of different items of social media content.