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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:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

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

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/24522 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an unstructured text query inputted by a first user, identifying one or more objects associated with the online social network matching at least a portion of the unstructured text query, accessing a context-free grammar model comprising a plurality of grammars, generating one or more structured queries, each structured query corresponding to a selected grammar of a context-free grammar model, wherein each structured query is based on a natural-language string generated by the selected grammar, each structured query comprising at least one query token corresponding to each of the identified object, and sending one or more of the structured queries as suggested queries for display to the first user in response to the unstructured text query inputted by the first user.


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