Patent Document ID: 9767492
Application ID: 13637116

Base Claim:
1. A method for ranking based on interpersonal distances, comprising: obtaining, by a ranking server, objects queried by a query request initiated by a user from a user client and obtaining a reference user group corresponding to each queried object; obtaining, by the ranking server, interpersonal distances between users in the reference user group and the user who initiates the query request, and obtaining rating scores of each of the objects queried by the query request that are given by the users in the reference user group; and determining, by the ranking server, a user relationship ranking index of each of the objects queried based on the interpersonal distances and the rating scores, and ordering the objects based on respective user relationship ranking indices of the objects.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining, by the ranking server, the interpersonal distances between the users in the reference user group and the user who initiates the query request comprises: obtaining, by the ranking server, friendship relation information of the user from a social networking server, and determining the interpersonal distances between the users of the reference user group and the user who initiates the query request based on the obtained friendship relation information; or determining, by the ranking server, whether two users have common user properties based on user properties recorded in the social networking server, and determining an interpersonal distance between the two users based on the common user properties, wherein the interpersonal distance between the two users decreases as a quantity of common properties of the two users increases.