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US 2014/0207866 A1Published application
Content surfacing based on geo-social factors
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsDavid Harry Garcia, Samuel Odio
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, calculates a novelty score for the location representing the user's degree of familiarity, and surfaces content within a geographic and temporal radius based on the novelty score for display to the user.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- by one or more computing devices, accessing social-networking information of a user of a social-networking system;
- by one or more computing devices, determining a location associated with the user;
- and
- by one or more computing devices, calculating a novelty score of the location for the user, wherein the novelty score is inversely related to an estimate of a familiarity of the user with the location.
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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
- access social-networking information of a user of a social-networking system;
- determine a location associated with the user;
- and
- calculate a novelty score of the location for the user, wherein the novelty score is inversely related to an estimate of a familiarity of the user with the location.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
- access social-networking information of a user of a social-networking system;
- determine a location associated with the user;
- and
- calculate a novelty score of the location for the user, wherein the novelty score is inversely related to an estimate of a familiarity of the user with the location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.