Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blending search results on online social networks
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Application No.: US15456241Application Date: 2017-03-10
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Publication No.: US10534824B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Girish Kumar , Yuval Kesten , Xiao Li , Fabio Lopiano
- 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 ; G06F16/9535 ; G06F16/245 ; G06F16/248 ; G06F16/33 ; G06F16/2457 ; G06F16/903

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query input comprising one or more n-grams; parsing the search query input to identify keywords; generating query commands for the keywords. Each query command may specify: a particular object-type; one or more identifiers of one or more objects that match the search query input; and one or more types of relationships with respect to the objects. The method may further include searching a particular vertical that stores objects of the particular object-type having a relationship of the type of relationship with respect to one or more of the objects; generating a plurality of search-result modules corresponding to the query commands, each search-result module comprising references to objects of the particular object-type specified by the query command; and sending, to a client device, instructions for presenting an interface comprising one or more of the search-result modules.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170185689A1 Blending Search Results on Online Social Networks Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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