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Selective inclusion of members in a results list

  • US 10,296,550 B2
  • Filed: 08/14/2015
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for selective modification of location based search results that is undetectable or difficult for users of the system to detect, comprising:

  • accessing by a processing element from a first memory location, a results list having a plurality of results responsive to an inquiry from a user device, the inquiry based on a selected location and a distance characteristic;

    determining by the processing element a density corresponding to the selected location of the results list; and

    in response to the density being above a predetermined threshold, modifying the results list that was responsive said inquiry by suppressing or promoting at least one result within the plurality of results of the results list based on user preferential criteria to generate a modified results list and transmitting the modified results list to a second memory location on the user device, wherein the modified results list comprises the suppressed or promoted result and additional results from the plurality of results and the density is at least one of user profile density in the selected location or population density of the selected location; and

    in response to the density being below the predetermined threshold, transmitting the modified results list to the second memory location on the user device.

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