Patent Document ID: 8738613
Application ID: 13550657

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of providing ordered search results within a search engine comprising: retrieving items from a network satisfying search criteria provided by a user and ranking the retrieved items in an initial ranked order based upon the search criteria; determining computer-related activities associated with the user, wherein the computer-related activities comprise social networking activities; ranking the retrieved items based on the computer-related activities, wherein the ranking of the retrieved items is dependent upon whether any retrieved item has been referenced by the social networking activities, and the ranking the retrieved items based on the computer-related activities further includes: determining one or more relevance factors for each retrieved item referenced by the social networking activities, wherein each relevance factor for a retrieved item is based upon a corresponding reference of that retrieved item by the social networking activities; and modifying the initial ranked order of the retrieved items by applying the one or more relevance factors of each corresponding retrieved item to the initial ranked order of that corresponding retrieved item to produce a modified ranking; and providing the search results including the retrieved items in order of the modified ranking.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the retrieved items is from a social networking website.