Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Query construction on online social networks
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Application No.: US15270896Application Date: 2016-09-20
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Publication No.: US10268765B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Tao Xie , Rousseau Newaz Kazi , William R. Maschmeyer , Colin William Dunn , Maxime Boucher , Christopher Joseph Kalani
- 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: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06F17/27

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes presenting, by a client system, grammar tokens, each grammar token being based on a natural-language string and comprising references to objects associated with an online social network, receiving, at the client system, a selection of one of the presented grammar tokens, the selected grammar token being based on a first natural-language string, presenting, by the client system, completion tokens, wherein each completion token is based on a natural-language string corresponding to the first natural-language string and comprises references to objects associated with the online social network, receiving, at the client system, a selection of one of the completion tokens, the selected completion token being based on a second natural-language string, and generating, by the client system, a structured query corresponding to the selected grammar and completion tokens, the structured query comprising references to the objects referenced in the selected grammar and completion tokens.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170011122A1 Query Construction on Online Social Networks Public/Granted day:2017-01-12
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