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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rajat Raina, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kihyuk Hong, Seoul, KR;

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 17/30424 (2013.01); G06F 17/30454 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30976 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client device 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, parsing the structured query to identify a first query constraint and one or more second query constraints, identifying an inverse constraint associated with the first query constraint, wherein the first query constraint has been previously flagged as identifying greater than a threshold number of objects, and generating a query command based on the structured query, wherein the query command comprises the inverse constraint and the one or more second query constraints.


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