Patent ID: 8306922
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving at a first server system information related to users of a social network site hosted on a second server system; determining by the first server system a social network graph for at least a portion of the social network from the received information, the graph comprising a plurality of nodes connected by links, each node corresponding to a user that is registered with the social network and that has a profile page on the social network; identifying first nodes from the plurality of nodes as including content associated with a particular subject of interest; seeding the identified first nodes with first scores that indicate profile pages for the identified first nodes are positively identified as including content associated with the particular subject of interest; determining second scores for second nodes of the plurality of nodes based on propagation of the first scores from the first nodes to the second nodes using the links of the social network graph, where: providing by the first server system the determined second scores for the second nodes.