Searching content of prominent users in social networks

US2016246789A1 · US · A1

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Publication numberUS-2016246789-A1
Application numberUS-201313788148-A
CountryUS
Kind codeA1
Filing dateMar 7, 2013
Priority dateApr 25, 2012
Publication dateAug 25, 2016
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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for receiving a query; retrieving one or more social restricts associated with the user, the one or more social restricts comprising a set of author-based query restricts; generating an augmented query based on the query and the set of author-based query restricts; obtaining a set of social search results that are responsive to the augmented query, each social search result in a first sub-set of the set of social search results being associated with an author-based document restrict that corresponds to an author-based query restrict in the set of author-based query restricts; and providing the social search results for display to the user.

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1 . A computer-implemented method executed by one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving a query from a user; identifying, by the one or more processors, social graph information associated with the user, the social graph information including i) first information regarding one or more author-users the user has an asymmetric relationship with through one or more computer-implemented social networking services and ii) second information regarding one or more contacts the user has…

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What does patent US2016246789A1 cover?
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for receiving a query; retrieving one or more social restricts associated with the user, the one or more social restricts comprising a set of author-based query restricts; generating an augmented query based on the query and the set of author-based query restricts; obtaining a set of social search r…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Google Inc, Google Inc
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06Q10/40. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Thu Aug 25 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (A1). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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