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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2010
Srinivas Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alex LI, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chad Eugene Little, San Carlos, CA (US);
Namita Gupta, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Xiu Deng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinivas Narayanan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alex Li, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chad Eugene Little, San Carlos, CA (US);
Namita Gupta, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Xiu Deng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes one or more computing systems that implement a social networking environment and are operable to access stored information including a plurality of nodes including a first set of user nodes that each correspond to a respective user and a second set of concept nodes that each correspond to a respective concept. The stored information further includes a plurality of edges that each define a connection between a corresponding pair of nodes including a first set and a second set of edges. Each edge from the first set defining a connection between a pair of user nodes and representing a social relationship between the users corresponding to the user nodes. Each edge from the second set defining a connection between a user node and a concept node and representing an interest of the user of the user node with respect to the corresponding concept node.