US 2016/0110372 A1 · METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL SEARCH SERVICE

Abstract

Provided is a method of providing a location-based social search service. The method includes collecting, from a social network system, one or more pieces of visit history information including at least one of visit information of social search service users in association with at least a place and review data associated with the place, and storing the collected information; selecting a topic for each topic category from the visit history information; when a location-based query is received from at least one of the users, extracting a topic for each topic category from the location-based query; analyzing, for each topic category, a relationship between the topic extracted from the location-based query and the topic selected from the visit history information, and selecting at least one of the users as an expert.

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Dependent claims

A method of providing a location-based social search service, the method comprising:

collecting, from a social network system, one or more pieces of visit history information comprising at least one of visit information of a plurality of social search service users associated with at least one of a location and review data associated with the location, and storing the collected information;
selecting a first topic for each topic category from the visit history information;
extracting a second topic for each of the topic categories from a location-based query when the location-based query is received from at least one of the social search service users;
and
analyzing, for each topic category, a relationship between the second topic extracted from the location-based query, and the first topic selected from the visit history information, and selecting at least one of the social search service users as an expert.

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An apparatus which provides a location-based social search service, the apparatus comprising:

a communication unit;
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a controller configured to execute a control operation to receive, from a social network system, one or more pieces of visit history information comprising at least one of visit information of a plurality of social search service users associated with at least one of a location, and review data associated with the location, and to store the received information;
to select a first topic for each topic category from the visit history information;
to extract a second topic for each topic category from a location-based query when the location-based query is received from at least one of the plurality of users;
to analyze, for each topic category, a relationship between the second topic extracted from the location-based query and the first topic selected from the visit history information, and to select at least one of the social search service users as an expert.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus for providing location-based social search service

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Method and apparatus for providing location-based social search service

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Abstract

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