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Approximate privacy indexing for search queries on online social networks

  • US 9,715,596 B2
  • Filed: 03/07/2016
  • Issued: 07/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices:

  • retrieving, from one or more data stores, one or more objects requested by an application accessed by a first user of an online social network, wherein each object is associated with a privacy setting, and wherein a percentage of the retrieved objects have a privacy setting likely to make the object visible to the first user;

    determining, for each retrieved object, a visibility of the object with respect to the first user; and

    sending, to the application accessed by the first user, one or more of the retrieved objects, wherein each sent object has a visibility that is visible to the first user, and wherein objects having a visibility that is not visible to the first user are not sent.

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