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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2012
Applicants:

Cameron Alexander Marlow, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Robert William Cathcart, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Scott Dunn, Seattle, WA (US);

Rafael Linden Sagula, Kirkland, WA (US);

Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Mountain View, CA (US);

Siddharth Kar, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jonathan Chang, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Cameron Alexander Marlow, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Robert William Cathcart, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Scott Dunn, Seattle, WA (US);

Rafael Linden Sagula, Kirkland, WA (US);

Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Mountain View, CA (US);

Siddharth Kar, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jonathan Chang, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention improve the ability of a social networking system to determine which types of data—hereinafter referred to as 'fields'—are relevant to which types of user pages. Specifically, a social networking system assigns page types to different user pages, and likewise stores information on different types of fields. By analyzing the relationships of different pages and fields, the social networking system determines which types of fields are particularly well-suited for inclusion on different types of pages. Using the learned information about page types and field types, the social networking system can better aid page administrators in specifying data to add to their pages. For example, the social networking system can recommend to administrators the addition of certain types of fields or automatically add the fields. Further, the social networking system can specialize a search for social networking system data to field types.


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