Patent Document ID: 20160134577
Application ID: 14535308
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing a candidate story for presentation in newsfeeds for a plurality of users of the social networking system; identifying a candidate story eligible for presentation in a newsfeed for a user of a social networking system; determining a measure of expected engagement associated with the candidate story based on a rate at which the plurality of users of the social networking system have interacted with the candidate story since the candidate story was available for presentation in the social networking system; determining a measure of current engagement associated with the candidate story based on a rate at which the plurality of users of the social networking systems have interacted with the candidate story in a current time period; computing a temporal relevance of the story based on a comparison between the measure of expected engagement and the measure of current engagement, the temporal relevance indicating a likelihood that the story is relevant to the user in the current time period; and determining whether to select the candidate story for presentation in the newsfeed based on the temporal relevance of the candidate story.