System and method for managing an online social network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8572221
APP PUB NO 20050267940A1
SERIAL NO

10854054

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An online social network is managed using one server for database management tasks and another server, preferably in a distributed configuration, for CPU-intensive computational tasks, such as finding a shortest path between two members or a degree of separation between two members. The additional server has a memory device containing relationship information between members of the online social network and carries out the CPU-intensive computational tasks using this memory device. With this configuration, the number of database lookups is decreased and processing speed is thereby increased.

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  • FACEBOOK, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Galbreath, Nicholas San Francisco, US 36 2234
Predosin, Mirko Sunnyvale, US 10 164

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