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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2014
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian Piepgrass Hale, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rohit Dhawan, London, GB;
Nicolas Andrij Bushak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Giovanni Carriero, Palo Alto, 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); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); H04L 12/1813 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph with a plurality of user nodes and a plurality of location nodes, receives a search query with location parameters, identifies a set of location nodes based on the search query, and determines a value for each location nodes in the set based on the edges connected to the location nodes in the social graph.