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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rousseau Newaz Kazi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mark Andrew Rich, Redwood City, CA (US);

Christina Joan Sauper, San Francisco, CA (US);

Amaç Herda{hacek over (g)}delen, Mountain View, CA (US);

Soorya Vamsi Mohan Tanikella, Redmond, WA (US);

Brett Matthew Westervelt, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Maykel Andreas Louisa Jozef Anna Loomans, San Francisco, CA (US);

Adam Eugene Bussing, San Francisco, CA (US);

Shuyi Zheng, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user, a request associated with a particular content item; identifying communications authored by one or more users, each identified communication being associated with the particular content item; generating one or more search-results modules related to the particular content item, each search-results module being of a particular module type, wherein each search-results module includes information from a subset of the identified communications, the information corresponding to the particular module type of the search-results module, and wherein a number of communications in the subset of the identified communications including each search-results module is greater than a module-specific threshold number of communications; and sending, to the client system, a search-results interface comprising one or more of the search-results modules.


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