Patent ID: 9710563
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for operating a search engine for media content in a social network, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a query for media content related to a topic from a user; identifying a plurality of content items associated with the topic; determining a quality score for each of the plurality of content items, wherein the quality score is an indication of a correlation between the content item and the topic; providing a subset of the plurality of content items to the user, wherein the subset is selected based on the quality score, wherein the subset includes a predetermined number of content items that have the highest quality scores, wherein the subset of the plurality of content items is provided to the user in a ranked order that is based on a combination the quality score of each of the subset of the plurality of content items and a time that each of the subset of the plurality of content items was posted to the social network; and updating the quality score of one or more content items in the subset based on a behavior of the user in viewing the subset of the plurality of content items, wherein the behavior of the user in viewing the subset of the plurality of content items includes the user liking one or more content items in the subset, the user following a content provider that posted one or more content items in the subset, and an amount of time the user spends viewing the one or more content items in the subset.