Patent ID: 8572129

Claim:
A method comprising: by one or more server computing devices, receiving one or more characters of a character string as a user at a client computing device enters the character string into a graphical user interface; by the server computing devices, searching a social graph of a social-networking system for nodes matching the characters, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, one or more nodes being user nodes that each correspond to a user or concept nodes that each correspond to a concept; by the server computing devices, determining based on social-graph information associated with the user a relevance score of each of one or more nodes matching the characters; and by the server computing devices, sending to the client computing device one or more references corresponding to one or more nodes matching the characters and having relevance scores above a threshold for presentation to the user as the user enters the character string into the graphical user interface, the presentation of the references to the user enabling the user to select the references for automatic entry into the graphical user interface.