Patent ID: 9110953
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving by a social networking service a plurality of content items from users of the social networking service; receiving, from the users of the social networking service, user profile attributes comprising descriptive information about each user; automatically creating, by a processor, groups relevant to a user according to one or more rules, the groups comprising users of the social networking service having one or more common user profile attributes in common with the user; providing one or more of the content items for presentation to the user in a user interface, receiving, from the user, a selection of a filter of the one or more selectable filters, the selected filter associated with one or more groups of users; and responsive to the selection of the filter, sending for presentation to the user in the user interface updated subsets of content items for the content feed and the highlights feed, the updated subsets including only those content items received from the users in the one or more groups of users associated with the selected filter.