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Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016

Filed:

May. 03, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kihyuk Hong, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Sriram Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kittipat Virochsiri, San Mateo, CA (US);

Michael Curtiss, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Chaitanya Mishra, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2705 (2013.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); G06F 17/277 (2013.01); G06F 17/30454 (2013.01); G06F 17/30976 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving from a user a structured query comprising references to selected nodes and selected edges, parsing the structure query to identify a first query constraint and one or more second query constraints, identifying a inverse constraint associated with the first query constraint, and generating a query command based on the structured query, where the query command includes the inverse constraint and the one or more second query constraints.


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