Patent ID: 9679078
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising, by a computing device: accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them; receiving from a first user a query inputted by the first user at a search client, the search client being associated with context data from a page associated with the search client, wherein the context data identifies: generating one or more search results corresponding to the query, wherein each of the search results corresponds to a node of the plurality of nodes; scoring each of the search results based at least in part on the type of the page associated with the search client, the one or more second nodes, and the type of search identified by the context data associated with the search client; and sending the threshold number of the search results for display to the first user, wherein the threshold number of search results are displayed in association with the search client.