Patent Document ID: 8694593
Application ID: 13198569

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of associating users with a micro-community, the method comprising: receiving, with one or more processors, a search query from a first user; receiving an object reference to a calendar entry based on a search result for the search query; parsing, with the one or more processors, the object reference to identify account references associated with the calendar entry including an account reference for a second user in a social network; generating, with the one or more processors, a list of the account references, at least one of the account references being associated with the second user in the social network; generating a rating for each account reference in the list based on relevance to the object reference; determining whether the micro-community exists, the micro-community being relevant to the object reference; responsive to determining an absence of the micro-community, determining a subset of account references from the list of the account references to associate with the micro-community based on the ratings; and generating the micro-community for the subset of account references including the first and second users associated with the calendar entry.

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Claim 7:
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein generating the list of the account references that are relevant to the object reference includes at least one of the users that are explicitly associated with the object reference and the users that would find the object reference interesting.