Patent Document ID: 9262768
Application ID: 13828730

Base Claim:
1. A system for determining preferences within a social network, the system comprising: a client device, a server, addressable uniform resource indicators (URIs) and a URI content, connected via a communications network to at least one social network, the client device and the server in communication over the communications network with the at least one social network for retrieving the URI content; the client device including a graphical user interface (GUI) having feedback controls for obtaining feedback from a user while viewing the URI content in order to provide context specific suggestions; the server receiving the feedback through the GUI, storing the feedback, tracking the URIs, and using ratings and social graph data to create a preference model for suggesting additional URIs through the GUI; wherein the feedback controls are dynamically assigned and adjusted by the server based on criteria available to the server; wherein the ratings include at least one record with a rated item URI, a rater having a unique identification, at least one rating value provided based on user inputs or user settings, and at least one metadatum for creating subsets of the ratings; wherein the social graph data includes information about what content of URIs a user has shared with their friends, what content of URIs their friends have shared with the user, what content of URIs the user or their friends have liked or disliked, personal connections, business connections, and combinations thereof; wherein all ratings and social graph data are available to the preference model; wherein the URI content is shown in the GUI completely and without modification, rendered just as it would be in any standard web browser.

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Claim 5:
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the rater states are based on user specified settings and/or applied metadata.