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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Srinivasa Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Venkataramanan Nandagopal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Sun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a first user of an online social network, the request comprising a character string of one or more characters of text entered by the first user, identifying a first set of objects associated with the online social network matching at least in part the character string of the request, calculating a score for each identified object in the first set of objects, wherein the score for each identified object is based at least in part on connections between the first user and the identified object, and sending one or more suggested queries responsive to the request, each suggested query comprising the character string of the request and one or more keywords associated with one or more of the identified objects, wherein the suggested queries are displayed in a ranked list based on the calculated scores of the associated identified objects.