Patent ID: 8498979
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for presenting names of members of a social network who shared information about a commercial item to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device, the user being registered on the social network and having connections thereon, the method comprising: collecting, by a social search server, data representative of activities of the members on the social network from a remote server associated with the social network; indexing, by the social search server, the data representative of activities of the members on the social network to produce indexed activity data; extracting, by the social search server, commercial items from the indexed activity data; receiving, by the social search server, a search query along with a user identifier from the user device; identifying, by the social search server, a commercial item within the search query; using the identified commercial item and the user identifier, performing a search, by the social search server, on the extracted commercial items specific to the user's connections to obtain names of members of the social network who shared information about the commercial item; performing a semantic analysis of the shared information to determine if the shared information represents a recommendation for the commercial item; returning, by the social search server, the names of the members who shared information about the commercial item to the user device; and presenting, on the user interface, the names of the members who shared information about the commercial item.