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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Applicants:
Blake Ross, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Blake Ross, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30616 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Users of a social networking system post questions for other users to answer. Questions are automatically tagged based on keywords extracted from text within the posted questions as well as user-selected tags. Answers may be voted on and sorted by social information related to the browsing user. Affinities for tags are recorded based on users' interactions with the question and answer service. Affinities for tags may also be used to target questions to other users and sort answers.