Patent Document ID: 8386915
Application ID: 12843792
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for indicating relevance of shortened links to a user, the method comprising: obtaining a set of content items from one or more remote content providers, wherein a first one of the content items comprises a shortened link produced by a remote link-shortening server based on a first unshortened link that points to a first web page, and a second one of the content items comprises a second unshortened link that points to a second web page; obtaining statistics associated with the shortened link from the link-shortening server, the statistics comprising a first count of times that the first web page was accessed via the shortened link; obtaining statistics associated with a plurality of shortened links for the second unshortened link from a remote link-shortening server, the statistics comprising an aggregate count of times that the second web page was accessed via one of the plurality of shortened links and a count of the plurality of shortened links; computing, using the aggregate count and the count of the plurality of shortened links, an average count of times that the second web page was accessed via one of the plurality of shortened links; comparing the first count and the average count; ordering the first content item and the second content item in the set of content items based at least in part on the comparison; and displaying the content items according to the ordering within a browser user interface.