Patent ID: 9092784
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method to display prioritized reviews on a display of a mobile electronic device, the method comprising: sending from a mobile electronic device a request over a network to an online storefront for content item information relating to a content item; receiving at the mobile electronic device over the network from the online storefront the requested content item information, wherein the received content item information includes reviews of the content item and indications of identities of a plurality of reviewers who provided the reviews; retrieving contacts information from a contacts database maintained within a memory of the mobile electronic device, wherein the contacts information indicates identities of contacts identified in the contacts database; sending over the network from the mobile electronic device to the online storefront the retrieved contacts information; receiving at the mobile electronic device over the network from the online storefront indications of matches between a plurality of contacts identified in the contacts information and the plurality of reviewers indicated in the content item information; determining, at the mobile electronic device, a priority of the reviews of the content item, the priority based at least partially upon a respective social affinity between a matched respective reviewer in the plurality of reviewers and a user of the mobile electronic device; and displaying, on the mobile electronic device, the reviews of the content item based on the determined priority.