Patent ID: 9323847
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more processing devices, one or more values for one or more user profiles from popularity scores that identify levels of popularity of the one or more user profiles, quality scores that identify levels of prominence associated with the one or more user profiles, or affinity scores that identify levels of closeness between user profiles; determining, by the one or more processing devices, that a first value for a first user profile exceeds a first threshold; and based on determining that the first value exceeds the first threshold, outputting, to a computing device, data for distinguishing a representation of the first user profile from a second user profile in a display area of a user interface; wherein the one or more user profiles are associated with search results of a search request, and the data for distinguishing a representation of the first user profile from a second user profile in a display area is output based on: