Patent ID: 9420016
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of predicting viewing activity of a new posting to an activity stream, the method comprising: transmitting, from a first computer to a second computer, a new posting to an activity stream in the second computer, wherein the new posting is available for viewing to a potential viewer set; identifying, by one or more processors, viewer information about one or more members of the potential viewer set; predicting, by one or more processors, a viewing activity of the new posting by the potential viewer set, wherein a predicted viewing activity is based on identified viewer information about said one or more members of the potential viewer set, and wherein the predicted viewing activity describes a predicted likelihood of the potential viewer set viewing the new posting; presenting, on a display coupled to the first computer, the predicted viewing activity of the new posting by the potential viewer set; determining, by one or more processors, that the activity stream in the second computer receives more than a predetermined number of new postings during a particular period of time; and in response to determining that the new postings exceed the predetermined number during the particular period of time, reducing, by one or more processors, the predicted likelihood of the potential viewer set viewing the new posting.