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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thorben Christopher Primke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Barton Andrew Kiley, San Jose, CA (US);
Taylor Dancy Rogalski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine Morck Rode, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew James Lyons, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first search query including a selection of a first query-domain. The first query-domain may correspond to a first object-type. The method includes identifying a first set of objects of the plurality of objects matching the first object-type. The method includes sending a first search-results page responsive to the first search query. The first search-results page may include references to one or more of the identified objects from the first set of objects and one or more query-filter elements. Each query-filter element may correspond to a query-filter associated with the first query-domain. Each query-filter element may be activatable to apply the associated query-filter to the identified objects. The method includes receiving a second search query including a selection of one or more of the query-filters in response to the first user activating the corresponding query-filter elements.