Location Aware Commenting Widget for Creation and Consumption of Relevant Comments

• US 20130159406A1
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chand, Ashootosh, Kalyanaraman, Suresh Kumar
• Granted Patent: US 9,158,851 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Methods and computer readable medium for allowing a user to participate in an online conversation for a head content includes receiving a response from a user for the head content. The response from the user is geo-tagged with a location of the user. A counter indicative of number of responses received for the head content at the location is updated for the head content to include the response from the user. The responses received for the head content from the plurality of users is filtered to generate a subset of the responses related to the location of the user. The subset of responses and an interactive tag cloud for the head content is presented to the user. The subset of responses is presented in a ranked order. The tag cloud identifies one or more locations that have received greatest number of responses from the plurality of users.

Claims

1. A method for allowing a user to participate in an online conversation for a head content, comprising:

receiving a response from a user for the head content on a webpage, the head content selected from the webpage wherein the webpage includes a plurality of head contents from one or more sources, the response is provided as any one of rating, recommendation or comment;

geo-tagging the response with a geo location associated with the user;

updating a counter associated with the geo location to include the response from the user, the counter tracking number of responses received from a plurality of users at the geo location for the head content, wherein the counter is indicative of popularity of the respective geo locations with the plurality of users, for the head content;

filtering responses received from the plurality of users for the head content to generate a subset of the responses related to the geo location of the user; and

transmitting the subset of responses to the user along with an interactive tag cloud associated with the head content for rendering at a client device, wherein the responses within the subset are presented in a ranked order and the tag cloud identifies one or more geo locations that have received greatest number of responses for the head content from the plurality of users.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a response further includes,

providing a widget for selecting a new geo location associated with the user prior to receiving a response from the user;

and

associating the response received from the user to the new geo location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the interactive tag cloud further includes,

adjusting text sizes of the geo locations presented in the tag cloud based on the respective counters, the tag cloud providing a visual representation of the popularity of the geo locations with the plurality of users by presenting text of varying sizes for the different geo locations corresponding to the value in the respective counter.

4. The method of claim 1, further includes,

receiving a selection of a geo location presented in the tag cloud, from the user, wherein the selected geo location is different from the geo location of the user;

accumulating responses from a plurality of users for the selected geo location; and

presenting the accumulated responses for the selected geo location for the head content to the user in response to the selection of the geo location, the accumulated responses are presented in a ranked order based on popularity.

5. The method of claim 1, further includes,

continuing to receive responses from a plurality of users for the head content;

incrementing the counter for each of the respective geo locations for which responses have been received; and

updating the tag cloud to reflect the top geo locations that are most popular with the plurality of users based on the value in the counter of the corresponding geo locations,

wherein the receiving, incrementing and updating are performed in substantial real-time.

6. A method for allowing a user to participate in an online conversation for a head content, comprising:

receiving a selection of a geo location on a webpage, from a user, the webpage having rendered responses received for the head content from a geo location of the user, the selected geo location being different from the geo location of the user;

filtering responses from a plurality of geo locations accumulated for the head content to generate a subset of the responses related to the geo location selected by the user;

presenting the subset of the responses for the head content to the user, in response to the selection of the geo location; and

providing an interactive tag cloud alongside the subset of the responses, the interactive tag cloud identifying most popular geo locations for the head content based on number of accumulated responses for the head content from a plurality of users at the respective geo locations.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the geo location is selected using a location change widget provided on the webpage.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the geo location is selected from a tag cloud rendered alongside the responses on the webpage.

9. The method of claim 6, further including,

receiving the responses from a plurality of users from a plurality of geo locations for the head content continually;

and

updating a counter for each geo location in substantial real time based on the responses received from the plurality of users associated with the respective geo locations, the updating resulting in refining the most popular geo locations in the interactive tag cloud in substantial real time based on the number of responses for the head content at the corresponding geo locations.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein presenting the interactive tag cloud further includes,

adjusting text sizes of the geo locations presented in the tag cloud based on the respective counters, the tag cloud providing a visual representation of the popularity of the geo locations with the plurality of users by presenting text of varying sizes for the different geo locations corresponding to the value in the respective counter.

11. The method of claim 6, further includes,

receiving a response from the user, the response tagged with a current geo location selected by the user;

and

updating the counter associated with the selected geo location to include the response received from the user.

12. A computer program product comprising program instructions embodiment on a computer readable medium for allowing a user to participate in an online conversation for a head content, the program instructions comprising:

program instructions for receiving a response from a user for the head content, wherein the response is provided as any one of rating, recommendation or comment;

program instructions for geo-tagging the response with a geo location associated with the user;

program instructions for updating a counter associated with the geo location to include the response from the user, the counter tracking number of responses received from a plurality of users at the geo location for the head content, wherein the counter is indicative of popularity of the respective geo locations with the plurality of users, for the head content;

program instructions for filtering responses received from the plurality of users for the head content to generate a subset of the responses related to the geo location of the user; and

program instructions for presenting the subset of responses to the user along with an interactive tag cloud associated with the head content, wherein the responses within the subset are presented in a ranked order and the tag cloud identifies one or more geo locations that have received greatest number of responses for the head content from the plurality of users.