Facebook Updates Patent Filing Related To Real-Time Search
Facebook filed for a patent in April, “Real Time Content Searching In Social Network,” and the social network updated the filing Thursday, with the patent still pending.
Facebook filed for a patent in April, “Real Time Content Searching In Social Network,” and the social network updated the filing Thursday, with the patent still pending.
SearchBlog reported on the patent update, saying that it covers a method for receiving, identifying, and indexing posts by Facebook users. The abstract reads:
Indexing and retrieving real-time content in a social-networking system is disclosed. A user-term index includes user-term partitions, each user-term partition comprising temporal databases. As a post is received from a user, a user identifier, a post identifier, and a post are extracted.
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