Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Aggregating news events on online social networks
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Application No.: US14616155Application Date: 2015-02-06
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Publication No.: US10997257B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Veselin S. Stoyanov , Igor Ribiero de Assis , Alexander Perelygin
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Jordan IP Law, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F16/9535
- IPC: G06F16/9535

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first set of posts that includes a number of posts of the online social network posted within a first timeframe. In particular embodiments, each post is associated with one or more topics of a number of topics of the online social network. The method also includes determining a trending topic from the plurality of topics of the online social network; and generating a news-event object associated with the trending topic. In particular embodiments, the news-event object includes a seed post from the first set of posts and a tagging-algorithm for identifying posts matching the trending topic. The method also includes identifying, by the tagging-algorithm, one or more posts from the first set of posts that match the trending topic; and generating one or more search-results modules. In particular embodiments, each search-results module includes one or more search results.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160232241A1 Aggregating News Events on Online Social Networks Public/Granted day:2016-08-11
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