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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yofay Kari Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keith L. Peiris, San Francisco, CA (US);
William R. Maschmeyer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, London, GB;
Joshua Keith Duck, San Carlos, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system, a character string having n characters entered by the first user into a query field, wherein a term comprising the ncharacter of the character string is an ambiguous term, identifying one or more objects corresponding to the ambiguous term based on a calculated probability that the ambiguous term corresponds to the identified objects, sending instructions for presenting a set of suggested queries to the first user, each suggested query from the set of suggested queries corresponding to one of the identified objects and comprising a reference to the corresponding identified object, receiving a selection of a suggested query corresponding to a first object of the identified objects, and sending, responsive to receiving the selection of the suggested query, instructions for modifying the ambiguous term in the query field to include a reference to the first object.