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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gintaras Andrius Woss, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sriram Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zhongxian Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kihyuk Hong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kedar Dhamdhere, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a first user of an online social network a search query, searching data stores to identify objects that match the search query, where identifying the objects is also based in part on the privacy setting for each object, determining for each identified object a visibility of the object with respect to the first user, and generating one or more search results corresponding to the search query.