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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ashwin Bhat, Redwood City, CA (US);
Rousseau Newaz Kazi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Taylor Dancy Rogalski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine Morck Rode, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query inputted at a client device. The method includes searching a local cache of the client device to identify one or more objects stored in the local cache that match the search query, each object being associated with the online social network. The method includes generated, at the client device, a local search-results page including one or more local search results corresponding to one or more of the identified objects, respectively, and one or more search pivot elements corresponding to one or more object-types, respectively. Each local search result may be retrieved from the cache of the client device for display responsive to receiving the search query. Each search pivot element may be activatable to send the search query to the online social network and retrieve from the online social network one or more remote search results.