Patent ID: 8903850
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for ingesting personalized information to provide customization, comprising: receiving a request, from a user, to customize a user's interactive experience on a social network website or social network application; ingesting personalized information based on a user's activities, wherein: batch searching a database based on the personalized information to produce search results, wherein: customizing the user's interactive experience on the social network website or social network application based on the search results, wherein the user's interactive experience comprises recommending one or more friends to the user based on the search results and providing a customized activity stream that shows activity updates for the recommended one or more friends of the user; wherein: explicitly added friends that are explicitly added by the user are associated with a standard category of friends; the recommended one or more friends are automatically added as friends of the user; the automatically added friends exist within a different category of friends from the standard category; and a user enabled option provides for upgrading the different category of friends to the standard category of friends.