US 10,872,111 B2Granted

User generated data based map search

AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

InventorsBarry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

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Abstract

An apparatus for presenting search results includes a content module that gathers user-generated content from a plurality of users of a social networking service, the user-generated content relating to one or more of an event and an activity, a cluster module that identifies a cluster of related user-generated content from the location information of the gathered user-generated content, the cluster comprising a plurality of items of user-generated content relating to one or more of a common event and an activity that have a geographically similar location, an area module that determines an area containing the cluster of related user-generated content, a search module that receives a search query, the search query related to one or more of the common event and activity of the cluster, and a map display module that presents, on an electronic map, a boundary for the determined area.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a content module that gathers user-generated content posted by a plurality of users to a social networking service and relating to one or more of an event and an activity, each item of user-generated content comprising a time when the user generated the user-generated content and a location where the user generated the user-generated content;
a cluster module that identifies a cluster of related user-generated content based on the time and location information of the gathered user-generated content, the cluster comprising a physical area on a map with a plurality of items of user-generated content relating to one or more of a common event and an activity that have a plurality of locations with a geographically similar location;
an area module that determines a physical area on a map containing the cluster of related user-generated content, the area comprising a boundary around the perimeter of the area and around the cluster;
a search module that receives a search query, the search query related to one or more of the common event and activity of the cluster;
and
a map display module that, in response to receiving the search query, presents, on an electronic map, the boundary for the determined area,
wherein said modules comprise one or more of hardware circuits, a programmable hardware device, and a processor executing code stored in memory.

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A method comprising:

gathering, by use of a processor, user-generated content posted by a plurality of users to a social networking service and relating to one or more of an event and an activity, each item of user-generated content comprising a time when the user-generated content was generated and a location where the user-generated content was generated;
identifying a cluster of related user-generated content based on the time and location information of the gathered user-generated content, the cluster comprising a physical area on a map with a plurality of items of user-generated content relating to one or more of a common event and an activity that have a plurality of locations with a geographically similar location;
determining a physical area on a map containing the cluster of related user-generated content, the area comprising a boundary around the perimeter of the area and around the cluster;
receiving a search query, the search query related to one or more of the common event and activity of the cluster;
and
displaying, on an electronic map, the boundary for the determined area in response to receiving the search query.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.