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US8935261B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8935261-B2
Application numberUS-201113339258-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateDec 28, 2011
Priority dateDec 28, 2011
Publication dateJan 13, 2015
Grant dateJan 13, 2015

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In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph with a plurality of user nodes and a plurality of location nodes, receives a search query with location parameters, identifies a set of location nodes based on the search query, and determines a value for each location nodes in the set based on the edges connected to the location nodes in the social graph.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each edge between two nodes representing a single degree of separation between the two nodes, the plurality of nodes comprising: a first user node corresponding to a first user of an online social network; a plurality of second user nodes corresponding to a plurality of second users of the online so…

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What does patent US8935261B2 cover?
In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph with a plurality of user nodes and a plurality of location nodes, receives a search query with location parameters, identifies a set of location nodes based on the search query, and determines a value for each location nodes in the set based on the edges connected to the location nodes in the social graph.
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Piepgrass Brian, Dhawan Rohit, Bushak Nicolas Andrij, and 2 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06F16/24578. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jan 13 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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