Patent ID: 8838712

Claim:
A method for presenting messages to a user of social network services, the messages being provided via an aggregation system, the aggregation system being connected to the social network services, the method comprising: storing an identifier associated with a message in a user account of the user in the aggregation system; receiving messages from the social network services in the aggregation system, the messages being associated with the identifier; presenting the received messages to the user in response to a comparison between an identifier associated to the received messages and the identifier stored in the user account; storing an identifier associated with a first message in response to a receipt of the first message in the aggregation system; presenting the first message to the user; suppressing presentation of content of a second received message if the second received message is associated to the stored identifier associated with the first message such that multiple presentation of messages associated to the stored identifier received from different social network services can be avoided; associating an originating message with an identifier in the aggregation system and the aggregation system providing the originating message to the social network services; and storing the identifier in the aggregation system in connection with passing the originating message from the aggregation system to the social network services.