Ranking social network objects

摘要

An online social networking system can be used to rank social network objects of various different object types, each according to its type. The objects may comprise types such as users, communities, blogs, blog entries, events, forums, forum topics, postings, photographs, and/or images. The product comprises code for carrying out a method that begins with receiving ranking data about social network objects that comprises data about events performed on the social network. For each social network object, a ranking function is applied to ranking data about the social network object based on its type. In addition, the recency of an event on the social network related to the social network object is evaluated, in order to calculate the score for the social network object. A relative ranking for each of the plurality of social network objects based on its score is determined, and the score and relative ranking of each of the social network objects stored.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
storing, using one or more computing devices, profile data respectively describing members of a social network in a database associated with the social network; determining, using the one or more computing devices, a group of particular members of the social network from the profile data, the members having an association in common; receiving, using the one or more computing devices, content objects posted by the particular members of the group; determining, using the one or more computing devices, content types of the content objects; and ranking, using the one or more computing devices, the content objects associated with the group according to one or more factors specific to content types of the content objects and evaluating the one or more factors using a corresponding ranking function to calculate a score for each of the content objects.