US Patent:
20150169571, Jun 18, 2015
Inventors:
Julia H. Farago - Somerville MA, US
Terran Melconian - Revere MA, US
Ankur Bhargava - Cambridge MA, US
David Bau - Lincoln MA, US
Manish M. Sambhu - San Francisco CA, US
Francisco M. Galanes - Wellesley MA, US
Assignee:
Google Inc. - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying and providing image search results including general image search results responsive to an image search query and social image search results responsive to the image search query wherein each of the social image search results is associated with content generated by a respective member of a social graph of a user wherein the member is at two or more distinct degrees of separation from the user and has a minimum number of social graph friends in common with the user.