Patent Document ID: 8972894
Application ID: 14304918

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: retrieving profile information related to a user of the social networking system, the profile information including the user's affinity and the user's connections' affinities for each of a plurality of tags, each tag associated with a question topic; selecting a set of questions stored in the social networking system based on question topics associated with the plurality of tags and the user's connections' affinities for each of the plurality of tags; for each question in the set of questions: determining a score for the question based on the user's affinities for a subset of the plurality of tags associated with the question; adjusting the score for the question based on one or more activities performed by the user in relation to another question associated with the subset of the plurality of tags; sorting the questions based on the adjusted scores for the questions; and providing one or more of the sorted questions in a question interface for display to the user.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the profile information further includes a time lapse measurement for the duration of time elapsed since the user last interacted with a question related to the selected topic and wherein adjusting the score further comprises: comparing the time lapse measurement to an average time lapse measurement for the selected topic; determining an adjustment for the selected topic based on the comparison; applying the adjustment to the scores for the questions associated with the selected topic; and ordering the questions by the corresponding scores from highest score to lowest score.