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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2010
Applicants:

Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nicholas Galbreath, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Winner, Los Altos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nicholas Galbreath, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Winner, Los Altos, 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); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/2235 (2013.01); G06F 17/30595 (2013.01); G06F 17/30696 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0275 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 17/2247 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01);
Abstract

Particular embodiments access a query submitted by a first user; retrieve information concerning one or more second users; retrieve a degree of separation between the first user and each second user within a social-networking system; and for each second user, if the degree of separation between the first user and the second user is less than or equal to a threshold degree of separation, then send the information concerning the second user to the first user in response to the query.


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