Patent Document ID: 8606792
Application ID: 12756072

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: identifying, by a computing system, multiple authors that have submitted posts to a messaging system, the multiple authors including at least a first author, a second author, and a third author; determining, by the computing system, a score for the first author based on a quantity of interactions, by a first group of at least some of the multiple authors, with posts that the first author has submitted to the messaging system; determining, by the computing system, a score for the second author based on a quantity of interactions, by a second group of at least some of the multiple authors, with posts that the second author has submitted to the messaging system; determining, by the computing system, a score for the third author based on the score for the first author and the score for the second author, due to the first author and the second author having requested to subscribe to a stream of posts that the third author submits to the messaging system; receiving, at the messaging system and from a computing device, a particular post that the third author submitted to the messaging system; assigning a score to the particular post based on the score for the third author; transmitting the particular post for receipt by computing devices that are associated with authors who have requested to subscribe to the stream of posts that the third author submits to the messaging system; determining that the score for the particular post satisfies a criteria for transmission to a recipient author that has not requested to subscribe to the stream of posts that the third author submits to the messaging system; and providing the particular post for display to the recipient author.

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Claim 6:
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first author has requested to subscribe to a stream of posts that are submitted by another author who is connected in a chain of one or more subscribing authors back to the third author.