Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ranking search results by social relevancy
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Application No.: US14938636Application Date: 2015-11-11
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Publication No.: US09959321B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Erick Tseng
- 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 search request is received from a first user, the request including the first user's location. A set of search results and their corresponding geographic locations are determined in response to the search request. For each search result, a weighted rating value is determined based on user ratings provided by one or more second users, an affiliation coefficient between the first user and each second user providing a user rating, and a proximity coefficient based on the distance between the first user's location and the geographic location of the search result. The search results are ranked by their respective weighted rating values and sent to the first user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160063003A1 RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BY SOCIAL RELEVANCY Public/Granted day:2016-03-03
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