Patent Document ID: 9747347
Application ID: 14476133

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: automatically retrieving extended content from other users that are a predetermined number of hops away from a user in an extended network of the user; obtaining engaging content for the user from a network service to increase the user's engagement with a content stream by identifying the engaging content having a score over a predefined threshold for likelihood of user engagement based upon one or more of quality of posts, trends of posts, and strength of a relationship between the user and a poster, the obtaining engaging content including generating a message with an action button for the user to take an action in a social network; combining the engaging content and the extended content to create a combined list of content; ranking the combined content by relevance to the user; and providing one or more of the ranked content.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein ranking the combined content includes ranking the extended content by a vicinity of an author of content to the user.