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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alexander P. Stein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Yehuda Rothschild, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravit Bennier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ethan Charles Stock, Belmont, CA (US);
Varun Vikram Bhartia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving a query identifying a first entity associated with the online social network. The method then includes accessing a deep-link index of the online social network including a plurality of records of indexed deep-links to a plurality of third-party applications. A deep link to the third-party application may include instructions for accessing a display state of the third-party application associated with the entity. The method further includes identifying one or more records of the deep-link index having an entity-identifier matching the identified first entity of the query, and sending one or more search results responsive to the query. The search results may include deep links corresponding to one or more of the identified records, and each deep link may be selectable by the first user to access a display state of a third-party application associated with the first entity of the query.