US 2015/0106366 A1 · SOCIAL WHERE NEXT SUGGESTION

Abstract

A group recommendation provides end users in a social group a set of recommended destinations based on the combined personal preferences of the members of the social group. Members of a social group are identified using a combination of location based signals and social graph information in response to receiving a recommendation request. The group recommendation may be determined by combining the personal preferences associated with each member of the group into a master preference profile. Alternatively, the group recommendation may be determined by first calculating an individual recommendation list for each member of the social group and then calculating a composite score for each recommendation on the individual recommendation lists.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method to provide destination recommendations to social groups, comprising:

identifying, by one or more computing devices, a preliminary social group based on one or more location signals received from one or more remote computing device, wherein the one or more location signals indicate that the one or more remote computing devices are within a defined proximity threshold;
identifying, by the one or more computing devices, those members associated with the one or more remote computing devices of the preliminary social group that meet a social connection threshold with the requesting user to define a final social group;
generating, by the one or more computing devices, a ranked group recommendation list for the final social group, the ranked group recommendation list comprising a ranked list of suggested destinations for the group based at least in part on personal preference profiles of each member of the final social group;
and
displaying, by the one or more computing devices, the ranked social group recommendation on the first remote computing device.

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A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-executable storage device having computer-executable program instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer cause the computer to provide destination recommendations to social groups, the computer-executable program instructions comprising:
computer-executable program instructions to receive a recommendation request from a remote computing device associated with a requesting user;
computer-executable program instructions to identify one or more users that are within a social connection threshold with the requesting user on a social graph of the requesting user;
computer-executable program instructions to identify the one or more users that are within the social connection threshold that are also within a defined proximity threshold based on a location-based signal received from one or more remote computing device associated with the one or more users to define a final social group;
computer-executable program instructions to generate a ranked group recommendation list for the social group, the ranked group recommendation list comprising a ranked list of suggested destinations for the group based at least in part on the personal preferences of each member of the social group;
and
computer-executable program instructions to display the ranked social group recommendation on the first remote computing device.

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A system to provide destination recommendations to social groups, comprising:

a storage device;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to:
identify a preliminary social group based on one or more location-based signals received from a first remote computing device, other remote computing devices, or a combination thereof;
identify those members of the preliminary social group that meet a social connection threshold with the requesting user to define a final social group;
generate a ranked group recommendation list for the final social group, the ranked group recommendation list comprising a ranked list of suggested destinations for the group based at least in part on the personal preferences of each member of the final social group;
and
display the ranked social group recommendation on the first remote computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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