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Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dinkar Jain, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Ashish Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rose Marie Philip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query inputted by the user; identifying a set of objects matching the query; calculating, for each identified object, a plurality of category-scores corresponding to a plurality of categories, respectively, wherein each category-score is calculated based on a plurality of sub-scores corresponding to a plurality of scoring axes; categorizing each identified object into a category of the plurality of categories based on the category-scores for the identified object; and sending, to the client system in response to the query, one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the categorized objects for display, each search result referencing the respective categorized object, wherein the one or more categorized objects of the search results comprises objects categorized into one or more selected categories.


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