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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:

Jul. 25, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Vojin Katic, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30587 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a social-networking system may access an enhanced search index of an online social network. The enhanced search index may include data from a social graph having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, where the nodes comprise a plurality of internal nodes corresponding to entities associated with the online social network, and a plurality of external nodes corresponding to objects associated with a third-party system. The social-networking system may then search the enhanced search index in response to a query received from a user to identify objects that substantially match the query. Each identified object may be scored by the social-networking system based at least in part on a connectivity of the corresponding external node to the one or more internal nodes. In response to the query, the social-networking system may send a search-results page referencing objects based on their scores.


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