Patent Document ID: 8898226
Application ID: 13593935

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a client device of a first user of an online social network, a search request at the online social network, the online social network comprising a social graph with a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of one or more of the nodes being associated with one of a plurality of users of the online social network, each connecting between two nodes representing a relationship between the two nodes and establishing a single degree of separation between the two nodes; searching, by the one or more processors, a multimedia content database to find multimedia content matching one or more terms in the search request; determining, by the one or more processors, one or more matching users of the online social network within a threshold degree of separation of the first user, each matching user being associated with multimedia content matching one or more terms in the search request; retrieving, by the one or more processors, associated multimedia content information for one or more matching users; and sending, by the one or more processors, in response to the search request, information to the client device of the first user to display a web page, wherein the information to display the web page comprises, for each retrieved matching user, profile information and the associated multimedia content information for the retrieved matching user.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining, by the one or more processors, at least one related user by searching in a data store of relationships between users of the online social network, based on whether a relationship exists between the at least one related user and the least one of the one or more matching users; searching, by the one or more processors, the data store of social networking content to determine if the at least one related user's associated multimedia content matches one or more terms in the search request; determining, by the one or more processors, that the at least one related user has associated multimedia content matching one or more terms in the search request; retrieving, by the one or more processors, associated multimedia content information for the at least one related user; and wherein the information to display the web page further comprises the profile information and the associated multimedia content information for the at least one related user.