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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Veselin S. Stoyanov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Igor Ribiero de Assis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Perelygin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first set of posts that includes a number of posts of the online social network posted within a first timeframe. In particular embodiments, each post is associated with one or more topics of a number of topics of the online social network. The method also includes determining a trending topic from the plurality of topics of the online social network; and generating a news-event object associated with the trending topic. In particular embodiments, the news-event object includes a seed post from the first set of posts and a tagging-algorithm for identifying posts matching the trending topic. The method also includes identifying, by the tagging-algorithm, one or more posts from the first set of posts that match the trending topic; and generating one or more search-results modules. In particular embodiments, each search-results module includes one or more search results.