Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic ranking of user cards
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Application No.: US14231049Application Date: 2014-03-31
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Publication No.: US09798832B1Publication Date: 2017-10-24
- Inventor: Samuel Wharton Lessin , Robert M. Baldwin , Jeffrey Huang , Timothy A. Stanke , Caitlin Rothrock Winner , Matthew Vincent Sain
- 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 ; G06F17/00 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph including a number of nodes and a number of edges connecting the nodes. Each of the edges between two of the nodes represent a single degree of separation between them. The nodes include a first node corresponding to a first user associated with an online social network and a number of second nodes that each correspond to a concept or a second user associated with the online social network. The method also includes generating a number of user-cards in response to a request by the first user for a list of second users. Each user-card is associated with a structured query referencing nodes or edges of the social graph. Each user-card contains references to a number of second users corresponding to one or more second nodes that match the structured query associated with the user-card.
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