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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yofay Kari Lee, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Michael Benjamin Cohen, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Maxime Boucher, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Alisson Gusatti Azzolini, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Xiao Li, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, London, GB;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30522 (2013.01); G06F 17/30528 (2013.01); G06F 17/30979 (2013.01);
Abstract

In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an unstructured text query, parsing the text query to identify n-grams; determining a score that the n-grams correspond to particular nodes and edges from a social graph, identifying those nodes and edges with a score greater than a threshold score, and then generating structured queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges.


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