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Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain, Milpitas, CA (US);

Sung-eok Jeon, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a first user a text query inputted by the first user using an I/O device associated with the client system, the I/O device including a first keyboard layout. The method also includes identifying one or more physical-proximity phrases corresponding to the text query based at least in part on the first keyboard layout and calculating a confidence score for each of the identified physical-proximity phrases based at least in part on a search history of the first user. The method also includes identifying one or more objects, where each identified object matches at least one of the identified physical-proximity phrases having a confidence score greater than a threshold confidence score and sending to the first user one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the identified objects, respectively.


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