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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2012
Applicants:

William K. Tiu, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey J. Roberto, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

William K. Tiu, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey J. Roberto, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2247 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Particular embodiments receive a search request and identify matching users associated with group information corresponding to the search request. Examples of group information include group ID, name, description of the group, and members of the group. Profile information is retrieved for each of the one or more matching users. Information to display a web page may be sent in response to the search request. The information to display the web page comprises the profile information and the group information for at least one of the one or more matching users. The web page may also include content associated with matching users (e.g., multimedia content, social networking content). Particular content may be designated as featured content based on the popularity of the content.


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