Selection and ranking of comments for presentation to social networking system users
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsEric Faller, Sumeet Vaidya, Aditya Brij Koolwal, Matthew Kai-Shing Choi
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AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsEric Faller, Sumeet Vaidya, Aditya Brij Koolwal, Matthew Kai-Shing Choi
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When a social networking system receives a request from a requesting user for a content item associated with one or more comments, the social networking system determines an interest score for each comment. The interest score for a comment indicates a measure of the user's likelihood of being interested in the comment. Based on the calculated interest scores, the social networking system selects one or more comments for presentation to the viewing user along with the content item. The social networking system may specify an order in which the selected comments are presented based on the interest scores of the selected comments.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
A computer-implemented method comprising:
The method of claim 18, wherein selecting one or more comments for presentation to the requesting user based at least in part on the calculated interest scores comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.