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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:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Srinivas P. Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sanjeev Singh, San Jose, CA (US);

Alex Li, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a query field associated with a social network environment, a request from a first user of the social network environment, identifying a first set of objects associated with the online social network matching at least in part the character string of the request, determining a second set of objects based on the first set of objects, wherein each object in the second set of objects is conceptually relevant to at least one of the objects of the first set of objects, and sending, to the query field for display to the first user, the suggested queries responsive to the request, wherein at least one of the suggested queries comprises a references to one of the conceptually relevant objects in the second set of objects.


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