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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jun Gong, San Jose, CA (US);
John E. Saalweachter, New York, NY (US);
Sheng Zhang, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Wanda Wen-hui Hung, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Bogdan Dorohonceanu, Somerset, NJ (US);
Yihua Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Sagar Kamdar, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jeremy Hylton, Easton, PA (US);
Othar Hansson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kumar Mayur Thakur, West Orange, NJ (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of actions of receiving a search query from a searching user, determining that the search query corresponds to a trigger query and, in response, providing data associated with the first set of authoritative users for potential display to the searching user, determining a second set of authoritative users based on the first set of authoritative users, for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users, receiving a contact status between the authoritative user and the searching user within a social networking service, and transmitting instructions to display data associated with authoritative users of the second set of authoritative users with search results responsive to the search query, the data including the contact status for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users.