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User search based on private information

  • US 10,032,047 B2
  • Filed: 10/09/2015
  • Issued: 07/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, at a social-networking system, a query from a client device of a first user specifying one or more criteria;

    accessing, by the social-networking system, a data store comprising information associated with one or more users of the social-networking system;

    identifying, by the social-networking system, a plurality of users of the social-networking system based on the query, wherein the plurality of users comprise;

    a second user identified based on private information stored in the data store and the one or more criteria, wherein the private information is not viewable by the first user; and

    a third user identified based on non-private information stored in the data store and the one or more criteria, wherein the non-private information is viewable by the first user, and wherein the third user is identified responsive to the identifying of the second user based on private information; and

    sending, to the client device of the first user, a plurality of search results responsive to the query, wherein the search results comprise information associated with at least the second and third users, and wherein the information associated with the second user comprises substitute information associated with the second user in place of the private information, the substitute information being information that is viewable by the first user.

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