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Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Maxime Boucher, Mountain View, CA (US);

Russell Lee-Goldman, Oakland, CA (US);

Kathryn Hymes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Martin Jean Raison, Stanford, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30392 (2013.01); G06F 17/30528 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges. A first node corresponds to a first user associated with an online social network and second nodes correspond to a concept or a second user. The method further comprises scoring a first set of nodes of the second nodes based on user-engagement factors. The method further comprises identifying common nodes that are connected by edges to nodes of the first set of nodes that have a score greater than a threshold score. The method further comprises generating structured queries and sending the structured queries to the user, the sent structured queries being a personalized query.


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