Patent ID: 9461833
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving first message data, the first message data configured to be processed to display a first set of messages of a first user of a social network; receiving second message data, the second message data configured to be processed to display a second set of messages of a second user of the social network; determining whether the first message data and the second message data are associated with a social group on the social network, wherein the determining comprises determining whether the first user and the second user are members of the social group; merging, by a processing device, the first message data and the second message data to generate coalesced notification data, wherein merging the first message data and the second message data is performed in response to determining that the first message data and the second message data are associated with the social group; and responsive to detecting that merged first and second message data associated with the social group meets a pre-determined number of messages, posting, by the processing device, the coalesced notification data via a network to client devices of other users of the social group, wherein the posting of the coalesced notification data provides, in an interface on a display of the client devices, an amount of new messages in the merged first and second message data of the social group without providing contents of the merged first and second message data, wherein the interface of the social network comprises controls to be activated by the other users to present the new messages in a unified list, the unified list comprising a first portion of the first set of messages and a second portion of the second set of messages.