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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Hisham R. Harik, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kiranjit S. Sidhu, E. Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hao Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Javier Olivan Lopez, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hisham R. Harik, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kiranjit S. Sidhu, E. Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hao Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Javier Olivan Lopez, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G06Q 30/01 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

Particular embodiments may receive one or more data items associated with a first user of a social-networking system. The one or more data items being related to an entity. One or more data stores may store a social graph of the social-networking system. The social graph may comprise a plurality of nodes and plurality of edges between nodes. The nodes may comprise user nodes corresponding to users of the social-networking system and concept nodes corresponding to concepts. Particular embodiments may identify one or more nodes of the social graph that likely match the entity and associate at least one of the data items to at least one of the identified nodes.


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