US 2014/0280322 A1Published application

Claims-based querying in an online system

AssigneeFacebook, Inc.

InventorSamuel Lessin

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Abstract

A social networking system allows its users to perform a structured search that returns objects (e.g., other users and pages) in the social networking system. A searching user may remove or add objects to the search by interacting with the returned objects. Adding or removing an object generates a claim stored by the social networking system that an object has or does not have, respectively, characteristics based on the search query. Additionally, the searching user may also request presentation of the search query to other users, which may be selected by the social networking system based on their predicted expertise. A dialog between the searching user and a selected other user may be provided to allow the searching user to provide the search query to the selected other user and to receive a response.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a social networking system, a search query from a searching user, the search query including one or more terms;
identifying one or more objects maintained by the social networking system and associating with data matching one or more of the terms included in the search query;
presenting the identified one or more objects to the searching user;
receiving a request from the searching user to present the search query to one or more additional users of the social networking system;
selecting one or more users to be presented with the search query based on information associated with the users by the social networking system;
presenting the search query to the selected one or more users;
receiving a response to the search query from one or more of the selected one or more users;
presenting the received response to the search query with the identified one or more objects;
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storing the received response and an association between the selected one or more user from which the response was received and the search query.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/800,679Filed 13 Mar 2013
Published: 18 Sep 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F 16/27
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database…
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 16/9536
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering