Patent ID: 8959153
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: accessing logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users; generating, by a candidate scoring module, scores for each of a plurality of possible groups based at least partially on the logical relationship information and both passive and active interactions between the first user and other users; selecting a first group from the plurality of possible groups based on the scores, wherein the first group contains more than one users, including both one or more users who are not logically connected to the first user in the accessed logical relationship information and one or more users who are logically connected to the first user in the accessed logical relationship information; adding the first user to the first group; measuring affinity levels among the users of the first group, the affinity levels based at least partially on both passive and active interactions between the first user and other users in the first group; and removing the first user from the first group in response to a determination that the affinity level between the first user and the other users in the first group has dropped below a preset threshold over time.