Patent ID: 9483524
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a search query, the search query received from a first user of a social network; analyzing, by the processor, content within communities to identify one or more of the communities that have content related to the search query, wherein each community is associated with the social network and includes one or more posts, the one or more posts in a community received from one or more members of the community, and wherein the one or more of the communities are identified when there is a content match between the search query and content of a statistical amount of members of the one or more of the communities; for each identified community, determining a statistical amount of members of the identified community that have posted content related to the search query in the identified community, wherein the statistical amount corresponds to at least a majority number of members in the identified community; and ranking, by the processor, the communities for presentation of the communities in a ranked order on a client device in response to the search query, the ranked order arranging one or more of the communities with a higher statistical amount of members that have posted content related to the search query in an elevated prominence compared to one or more of the communities having a lower statistical amount of members that have posted content related to the search query.