User Interface Methods and Systems for Selecting and Presenting Content Based on User Relationships

A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items, the method comprising:

• providing access to a set of content items;
• determining an organizational or social relationship of the user to at least one other person and inferring a likelihood of the user wanting to contact the other person based on the organizational or social relationship;
• determining a relevance of at least one content item of the set of content items to the other person;
• associating a relevance weight with the at least one content item, wherein the associated relevance weight is based in part on the likelihood of the user wanting to contact the other person;
• receiving input entered by the user for identifying desired content items;
• in response to the input entered by the user, selecting and presenting a subset of content items to the user as a hierarchy of content items browsable by the user, wherein the content items are ordered at least in part by the initial associated relevance weights of the content items.