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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ethan L. Perry, Lexington, MA (US);
Josef Scherpa, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Andrew L. Schirmer, Andover, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for adjusting a display of social media updates to varying degrees of richness. A level of importance for each social media update is identified and assigned to the update. The importance of the social media update can be defined by various aspects, such as topics or people of interest to the user. Furthermore, a current condition of a user's environment (e.g., current workload of the user) is determined. The social media updates are then displayed in a social networking feed with a particular degree of richness at a particular location based on the level of importance of the social media updates, the current condition of the user's environment, and/or the user's interactions with existing updates currently displayed. In this manner, the amount of time required by the user to determine which updates are important to the user is reduced.