Patent Document ID: 9324113
Application ID: 13338521

Base Claim:
1. One or more computer memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for enabling presentation of social network connections in association with a search engine results page, wherein the search results page is outside of a social networking application's domain, the method comprising: at a browser configured to render at least one SERP (search engine results page), wherein the SERP is outside of a domain associated with a social networking application, receiving a search query from a user; determining that at least a portion of the received search query is a name query; determining that the user is engaged in an active session with the social networking application and that data associated with one or more social network connections of the user is available from the social networking application; accessing an API associated with the social networking application by making a call to the API associated with the social networking application, wherein the call includes at least the name query and the user's social networking identification; determining that the name query matches the data associated with the one or more social network connections of the user by accessing the social networking application; presenting, on the SERP that is outside of the domain associated with the social networking application, information derived from the data associated with the one or more matching social network connections of the user, as a supplementary search result in a specified area of the SERP that is differentiated from any other matching Web results determined in response to the received query, with a selectable option for the user to add at least one of the one or more social network connections of the user to the user's social network as a first degree connection without directly accessing the social networking application; and upon selection by the user of the option to add the at least one of the one or more social network connections as a first degree connection, automatically navigating the user away from the SERP and into the social networking application.

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Claim 2:
2. The memory of claim 1 , wherein the data associated with the one or more social network connections of the user is retrieved from a data store associated with the social networking application.