Patent Document ID: 9443249
Application ID: 13803404

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: selecting one or more users that are connected to a particular user by way of a social networking service or by a relationship described by a graph stored in a database, wherein each user interacts with one or more services; obtaining, for each of the selected users, interest data indicating past interactions of the selected user that are associated with a particular topic and that are of different interaction types; selecting a model that is used for generating the interest score of the particular user that reflects the particular user's predicted interest in the particular topic from a set of two or more models each corresponding to a different topic, wherein the interest score of the particular user is generated based at least on the interaction types of the past interactions indicated by the interest data of the selected users as being associated with the particular topic; applying the interest data of the selected users for the particular topic to the model to generate the interest score of the particular user for the particular topic; receiving a search query associated with the particular topic from the particular user; determining, for each search result that is responsive to the search query, a search query score that reflects a likelihood that the search result corresponds to the search query; ranking the search results based on the interest score of the particular user for the particular topic and the search query scores; and providing a search results page based on the ranking of the search results.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving one or more posts, each of the posts comprising digital content; adjusting a score associated with at least one of the one or more posts based on the interest score of the particular user; and providing the one or more posts to the particular user based on the respective scores of the one or more posts.