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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. 23, 2019

Filed:

May. 16, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Thomas S. Whitnah, Mountain View, CA (US);

Olivier Chatot, E. Palo Alto, CA (US);

Erik N. Vee, San Mateo, CA (US);

William R. Maschmeyer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Keith L. Peiris, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alexander Langenfeld, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2453 (2019.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/90328 (2019.01); G06F 16/2423 (2019.01); G06F 16/24534 (2019.01); G06F 16/3325 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/90332 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query input from a client system comprising one or more n-grams, sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested modifications for the query input, each suggested modification comprising references to one or more objects associated with the online social network, receiving an indication of a selection of one of the suggested modifications, parsing the query input and the selected suggested modification using a context-free grammar model to generate an executable query command, and sending instructions to the client system for presenting one or more search results corresponding to the query command.


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