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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2012
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);
Eric Sun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
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);
Eric Sun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments improve the ability of users of a social networking system to search for information that is likely to be relevant to them by learning and/or applying a search context associated with selector components used to search for objects of the social networking system. The search context is specific to the use of an individual selector and thus need not be as general as the context of an entire page or set of pages in which selectors can be embedded. The social networking system may learn the context of a selector by monitoring user selections from prior search results performed using the selector.