Patent ID: 9047382
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: accessing a guest list associated with the event, the guest list identifying users of a social networking system who are invited to the event; for each of the users identified by the guest list, determining, by a processor, an acceptance state for the user based on a response received from the user; grouping, by the processor, the users identified by the guest list into one or more groups based on the acceptance state associated with each of the users, each of the one or more groups comprising users having a common acceptance state; selecting a group from the one or more groups; accessing a user profile associated with a viewing user; accessing user profiles associated with the users in the selected group, the user profiles identifying characteristics of the users in the selected group; ranking users within the selected group based on information from the user profile associated with the viewing user and the user profiles associated with the users in the selected group; determining a display comprising a plurality of the users identified by the guest list based on the ranking; and presenting the determined display to the viewing user.