Social Static Ranking for Search

• Main Authors: Gubin Maxim, Woss Gintaras Andrius, Sankar Sriram, Raina Rajat
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.02.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

In one embodiment, one or move computing devices receive, from a client device of a first user, a query corresponding to a first node type of a plurality of node types. The computer devices search one or more search indices to identify one or more nodes of a social graph matching the query. The search indices maintain an index of a plurality of nodes of the first node type, each node of the plurality of nodes having a static rank which is based at least in part on a pre-calculated value for each node. The computer devices send, to the client device of the first user for display, a search-results interface responsive to the received query. The search-results interface includes reference to one or more nodes each corresponding to the first node type and having a static rank greater than a threshold rank.