An online system allows users to exchange messages with other users, including entities such as businesses. The online system determines a metric describing measure of an entity's responsiveness to messages received via the online system based on a number of messages to which the entity responds and times for the entity to respond to messages. The online system displays an indication of the metric for an entity in connection with content identifying the entity. For example, the indication is displayed in conjunction with a content item identifying the entity, such as a content item including a link to initiate communication of a message to the entity.

The present disclosure is a method and apparatus for generating a suggested message. In one embodiment, a method for generating a suggested message includes monitoring, by an application server, a first device operated by a first user, detecting, by the application server, a triggering event relevant to the first user, and automatically generating the suggested message in response to the triggering event, where the suggested message is addressed to a second user.

An electronic mail (email) system generates an email user interface display, that allows the user to enter message content. A context-sensitive calendar preview can be triggered and displayed on the email user interface display. The email system detects a user drag and drop input dragging at least a portion of the message content onto the calendar preview, and automatically generates a calendar event based upon the detected drag and drop input, and the particular portion of the message content dragged onto the context-sensitive calendar preview.

A communication platform may comprise different systems for helping a user discover features of the platform. However, the systems may generate different results. An application programming interface (API) may receive such outputs and may be configured to select between the outputs based on detecting a state at a user's computing device and/or using a machine-learned model to weight the outputs and/or probabilities associated therewith using a target metric. The API may then rank the outputs and select from among them based at least in part on the target metric.

A communication platform may comprise different systems for helping a user discover features of the platform. However, the systems may generate different results. An application programming interface (API) may receive such outputs and may be configured to select between the outputs based on detecting a state at a user's computing device and/or using a machine-learned model to weight the outputs and/or probabilities associated therewith using a target metric. The API may then rank the outputs and select from among them based at least in part on the target metric.

The present disclosure provides an event information push method performed at a computer system, the method including: collecting network messages from a social networking platform; performing aggregation on the network messages, to obtain corresponding event information; obtaining, for each piece of event information, one or more attributes from the corresponding category of network messages; obtaining, from an event information and user database, a user group corresponding to the one or more attributes of each piece of event information; and pushing each piece of event information to a user in the user group corresponding to the event information.

Embodiments of a system and method for sharing content across a social network can include: receiving content (e.g., a content update) for a content channel (e.g., at a channel node of a set of remote channel nodes); assigning a content identifier to the content; transmitting the content with the content identifier to a user account associated with the content channel; and modifying the content channel with the content based on the content identifier.

Systems, methods, and computer readable media for staging a corpus of electronic communication documents for analysis, such as, for example, via a content analysis platform. The staging may include a staging platform accessing the corpus of electronic communication document. For each electronic communication document within the corpus, the staging platform may generate a fingerprint based upon the output of a hash function executed upon a set of characteristics corresponding to each segment within the electronic communication document. The staging platform may analyze the generated fingerprints to generated a plurality of threaded conversations that do not include electronic communication documents that fail to convey any new information. The systems and methods may also include detecting and flagging any segments within an electronic communication document that may have been mutated by its author.

The present disclosure describes techniques of processing bullet comments. The techniques comprise obtaining a page of playing a video to output a video stream; obtaining a plurality of pieces of bullet comment data associated with the video stream; and performing an i.sup.th bullet comment processing operation comprising adjusting operation indication information to a first piece of indication information; traversing the plurality of pieces of bullet comment data and determining whether the plurality of bullet comment data comprise a piece of bullet comment data in a to-be-posted state; performing a processing operation on the piece of bullet comment data in the to-be-posted state; in response to determining that the processing operation on the piece of bullet comment data in the to-be-posted state has been completed, adjusting the operation indication information to a second piece of indication information. In the present application, the operation indication information is configured to perform or block an operation subsequent to a bullet comment processing operation.

The present disclosure describes techniques of processing bullet comments. The techniques comprise obtaining a page of playing a video to output a video stream; obtaining a plurality of pieces of bullet comment data associated with the video stream; and performing an i.sup.th bullet comment processing operation comprising adjusting operation indication information to a first piece of indication information; traversing the plurality of pieces of bullet comment data and determining whether the plurality of bullet comment data comprise a piece of bullet comment data in a to-be-posted state; performing a processing operation on the piece of bullet comment data in the to-be-posted state; in response to determining that the processing operation on the piece of bullet comment data in the to-be-posted state has been completed, adjusting the operation indication information to a second piece of indication information. In the present application, the operation indication information is configured to perform or block an operation subsequent to a bullet comment processing operation.