Patent Document ID: 9418117
Application ID: 14020447

Base Claim:
1. A method for displaying a relevant conversation, comprising: identifying a conversation graph identifying messages broadcasted by a plurality of authoring accounts; selecting a subset of messages of the conversation graph for inclusion in a relevant conversation; adding, by a computer processor, a first message of the relevant conversation to a reverse chronological stream of messages associated with a recipient account; identifying, by the computer processor, a previously broadcasted second message of the relevant conversation, wherein the second message is an ancestor of the first message in a branch of the conversation graph; and providing at least a portion of the stream of messages for display on a client device, wherein the client device displays, concurrently with the first message in the stream of messages, an indication of the second message and a display element indicating that the second message is the ancestor of the first message.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the subset of messages of the conversation graph for inclusion in the relevant conversation comprises: calculating relevance scores each corresponding to an authoring account of the plurality of authoring accounts; and selecting messages of the conversation graph having a highest set of the relevance scores for inclusion in the relevant conversation.