Patent ID: 9560005
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for organizing messages, comprising: detecting, by a processor, receipt of each new message of an activity stream comprising a group of messages; determining, by the processor, a tense associated with each new message; associating, by the processor, the tense with each new message, at least the tense being used for organizing the group of messages of the activity stream; determining, for each new message, at least one of a time the message is posted to a social network and a time the message is first viewed by a member of the social network; associating, with each new message, a decay function based on at least one of the time the message is posted to the social network and the time the message is first viewed by the member of the social network, wherein associating the decay function to each new message comprises one of invalidating or changing the tense of each new message based on a duration of time from at least one of when each new message was posted to the social network and when each new message was first viewed by the member of the social network; and adding, by the processor, each new message and the associated tense of the message to the activity stream.