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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Girish Kumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yuval Kesten, San Francisco, CA (US);

Xiao Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Fabio Lopiano, London, GB;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30424 (2013.01); G06F 17/30672 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a first user of an online social network a search query input including one or more n-grams; generating a number of query commands based on the search query input; and searching one or more verticals to identify one or more objects stored by the vertical that match the query commands. Each vertical stores one or more objects associated with the online social network. The method also includes generating a number of search-result modules. Each search-result module corresponds to a query command of the number of query commands. Each search-result module includes references to one or more of the identified objects matching the query command corresponding to the search-result module. The method also includes scoring the search-result modules; and sending each search-result module having a score greater than a threshold score to the first user for display.


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