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Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021

Filed:

May. 21, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Sandhya Kunnatur, Mountain View, CA (US);

Soren Bogh Lassen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Curtiss, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Pilip Pronin, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/24554 (2019.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an update of activity associated with one or more content objects associated with a search term. The content objects associated with the search term are indexed on a list of one or more index servers or a term server. The list of the term server include identifier information of one or more content object types. The list of the index servers include identifier information of a single content object type. The method also includes determining whether the search term has a number of associated content objects exceeding a pre-determined threshold number; and modifying the list associated with the search term of a term server or one or more of the index servers based at least in part on the determination and in response to the update.


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