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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kihyuk Hong, Seoul, KR;
Sriram Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kittipat Virochsiri, San Mateo, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a structured query comprising references to one or more selected objects associated with the online social network, generating a query command based on the structured query, wherein the query command comprises an inner query constraint and an outer query constraint, identifying a first set of objects matching the inner query constraint and at least in part matching the outer query constraint, identifying a second set of objects matching the outer query constraint, and generating one or more search results based on the first and second sets of objects, wherein each search result corresponds to an object of the plurality of objects.