Social Discovery and Ranking of Pages

Patent №

US 8,935,261

Granted

2015-01-13

Filed 2011

Owner

FACEBOOK, INC.

AI components

6

ml · nlp · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13339258

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.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
Machine learning0.99
Evolutionary computation0.99
Planning0.98
AI hardware0.63
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

FACEBOOK, INC.

assignment · 278520170

Assignors

PIEPGRASS, BRIAN, DHAWAN, ROHIT, BUSHAK, NICOLAS ANDRIJ, CARRIERO, THOMAS GIOVANNI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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