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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);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/3051 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (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, generating a query command based on the structured query based on the structured query comprising a first query constraint and a second query constraint, identifying a first set of nodes matching the first query constraint and at least in part matching the second query constraint, identifying a second set of nodes matching the second query constraint, and generating search results based on the first and second set of nodes.


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