Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blending search results on online social networks
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Application No.: US15698287Application Date: 2017-09-07
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Publication No.: US10409868B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Ching-Chih Weng , Alessandro Presta , Chun-Yang Chen , Po-Lung Chen
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F16/951 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query, searching a multiple verticals to identify multiple of sets of objects in each respective vertical that match the search query, wherein each vertical stores objects of a particular object-type, generating a set of blended search results by blending the sets of identified objects from each vertical, determining that greater than a threshold proportion of objects in the set of blended search results are from a first vertical, adding at least one object from a second vertical to the set of blended search results in responsive to determining that greater than the threshold proportion of objects in the blended search results are from the first vertical, wherein the second vertical is different from the first vertical; and sending, responsive to the search query, the set of blended search results for display.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170371966A1 Blending Search Results on Online Social Networks Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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