Facebook wants their real-time search patented

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Facebook filed a patent titled “Real Time Content Searching in Social Network” which covers a method for receiving, identifying and indexing posts by users. According to SearchBlog, the patent was filed this week and the patent is still pending. The technology determines an identifier associated with user, post and term in the post.
 

The article added the details about this patent technology.

"The search or search results may also be filtered to only show results related to a particular connection or group of connections," according to the description of the patent filing. "A real time search engine compiles the post identifiers from matching posts in the user-term index query and uses the post identifiers to access the forward index and obtain the storage locations in the object stores for the posts."

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