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Patent No.:

US 9280534 B1

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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2012
Applicants:

Jasper Reid Hauser, San Francisco, CA (US);

Luke St. Clair, Redmond, WA (US);

David Harry Garcia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jenny Yuen, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Jasper Reid Hauser, San Francisco, CA (US);

Luke St. Clair, Redmond, WA (US);

David Harry Garcia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jenny Yuen, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/273 (2013.01); G06F 17/276 (2013.01);
Abstract

Particular embodiments determine that a textual term is not associated with a known meaning. The textual term may be related to one or more users of the social-networking system. A determination is made as to whether the textual term should be added to a glossary. If so, then the textual term is added to the glossary. Information related to one or more textual terms in the glossary is provided to enhance auto-correction, provide predictive text input suggestions, or augment social graph data. Particular embodiments discover new textual terms by mining information, wherein the information was received from one or more users of the social-networking system, was generated for one or more users of the social-networking system, is marked as being associated with one or more users of the social-networking system, or includes an identifier for each of one or more users of the social-networking system.


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