Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Suggesting filters for search on online social networks
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Application No.: US15228771Application Date: 2016-08-04
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Publication No.: US10223464B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Melissa Rose Winstanley , Evan John Rocha , David M. Goldblatt , Brinda Mehta , Daniel Cabral Francisco , Krishna Jayaram Kalpathy , Prerna Totla , Eric Ringger
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query from a client system of a first user; parsing the search query into n-grams, and calculating confidence-scores for entities in a set of query-analysis-entities based on the n-grams, each confidence-score representing a probability that one or more of the n-grams are intended to reference a respective entity; determining a set of search results matching the search query, and calculating entity-frequencies corresponding to entities in a set of results-analysis-entities based on a histogram analysis of the set of search results; calculating a filter-score entities in a set of prospective-entities, which includes entities from the set of query-analysis-entities and the set of results-analysis-entities, based on the respective confidence-score and entity-frequency; and sending, to the client system, suggested filters corresponding to entities having a filter-score greater than a threshold filter-score, the suggested filters being selectable to modify the set of search results.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180039647A1 Suggesting Filters for Search on Online Social Networks Public/Granted day:2018-02-08
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