发明名称 Search-powered connection targeting
摘要 A social networking system extends the reach of an ad by allowing an advertiser to seed a search for suggesting targeting criteria for an ad. Using the seeds, the social networking system identifies a set of seed objects from a social graph. The social networking system traverses the social graph to compute the similarity between the seed objects and candidate objects related to the seed objects. Based on the computed similarity, the social networking system suggests a set of target objects to the advertiser. The social networking system receives a selection of one or more target objects from the advertiser. From the selected target objects the social networking system determines one or more targeting criteria for the ad, so users with an edge in the social graph to any of the selected target objects are eligible to receive the ad.
申请公布号 US9020835(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.04.28
申请号 US201213549061 申请日期 2012.07.13
申请人 Facebook, Inc. 发明人 Zhou Ding
分类号 G06Q30/02 主分类号 G06Q30/02
代理机构 Fewick & West LLP 代理人 Fewick & West LLP
主权项 1. A method comprising: receiving from an advertiser via an interface of a social networking system one or more seeds for suggesting targeting criteria for an advertisement; identifying one or more seed objects in a social graph maintained by the social networking system based on the received seeds, the social graph stored in a database and including nodes corresponding to objects and connections representing relationships established in the social networking system between connected objects; querying the database to identify a plurality of other objects based on connections in the social graph between the seed object and the identified other objects; computing, using a processor of the social networking system, a similarity between one or more of the seed objects and each of the plurality of other objects associated with nodes in the social graph, the similarity between a seed object and the other object determined based at least in part on a comparison of nodes in the social graph having connections to both the node associated with the other object and to the node associated with the seed object and nodes in the social graph not having connections to both the node associated with the other object and to the node associated with the seed object; determining one or more candidate objects selected from the plurality of other objects based on the computed similarities; presenting the determined candidate objects to the advertiser; receiving from the advertiser a selection of one or more target objects from the candidate objects for use in the targeting criteria for the advertisement; and determining, using the processor of the social networking system, one or more targeting criteria for the advertisement based on the selected target objects, users of the social networking system having a connection to at least one of the selected target objects identified as eligible to receive the advertisement.
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