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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:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

May. 30, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Eric Ringger, Seattle, WA (US);

Hetunandan Munisharan Kamichetty, Seattle, WA (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); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2705 (2013.01); G06F 17/3064 (2013.01); G06F 17/3097 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving multiple posts containing each of the query terms after receiving a search query for posts from a user of an online social network, identifying, from an index of known phrases, one or more known phrases in the text of the retrieved posts, filtering the retrieved posts to generate a filtered set of posts, wherein the filtering comprises removing each post not containing at least one of the identified known phrases, computing features for each of the identified known phrases, calculating a score for each post in the filtered set based on the features of the identified known phrases, ranking the posts based on the calculated scores, and sending instructions, to the client system, for generating a search-results interface comprising references to one or more of the posts presented in ranked order.


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