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Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2012
Applicants:

Sean Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David Yen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sagar Kamdar, Redwood City, CA (US);

Kumar Mayur Thakur, West Orange, NJ (US);

Yihua Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);

Anthony S. Hyatt, Forest Hills, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sean Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David Yen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sagar Kamdar, Redwood City, CA (US);

Kumar Mayur Thakur, West Orange, NJ (US);

Yihua Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);

Anthony S. Hyatt, Forest Hills, NY (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query, identifying a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query, the plurality of search results including a plurality of items of digital content distributed using one or more social networking services, and determining that one or more terms provided in the search query is an active keyword and, in response: defining a first sub-set of items, the first sub-set of items including items of the plurality of items of digital content and being responsive to the active keyword, and providing items in the first sub-set of items for display as a discussion stream within search results.


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