Patent ID: 9514196
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices: receiving, from a client device of a first user, an indication of the user accessing a query field at the client device; calculating a static rank for each of a plurality of nodes of a social graph, wherein the static rank is based at least in part on a number of edges of a particular edge type that are connected to the node or attributes of edges connected to the node and based at least in part on a value for each node, wherein the value is calculated based at least in part on one or more factors, wherein the factors comprise a number of edges of a particular edge type that are connected to the node or attributes of edges connected to the node, and wherein the value comprises a combination of sub-values, each sub-value being calculated for one of a plurality of edge types connected to the node; and sending, to the client device in response to the received indication, one or more references to one or more nodes, respectively, for display to the first user, each referenced node having a static rank greater than a threshold rank.