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Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2012
Applicants:

Frances B. Haugen, Mountain View, CA (US);

Daniel M. Crichton, Eden Prairie, MN (US);

Inventors:

Frances B. Haugen, Mountain View, CA (US);

Daniel M. Crichton, Eden Prairie, MN (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques include: receiving a search query; identifying content responsive to the search query; identifying one or more members of a social networking service that have an association with identified content; and outputting, to a computing device, data corresponding to the one or more members, where data corresponding to the one or more members is for generating display areas, and where the display areas are for obtaining information about corresponding members and for display along with search results.


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