LOCATION PROFILES

• US 20130227026A1
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daemonic Labs
• Original Assignee: Daemonic Labs
• Inventors: Jayaram, Santosh, Goettner, Peter, Altamirano, Antonio
• Application Number:
  US13/601,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20130227026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/185 with management of multicast group membership
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

Disclosed herein are location profiles created in some embodiments by aggregating data from users, processing the data into a location profile, and using the location profile for a variety of uses including but not limited to ranking search results based on characteristics derived from analyzing posts associated with the user profile, and providing a feed of posted associated with a location when the location is followed by a user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

aggregating user provided posts collected from a population of users at a server, the user provided posts including at least a location identifier and contextual data; and

processing the aggregated user provided posts into a location profile, the processing comprising;

grouping the user provided posts associated with approximately the same location identifier into the location profile.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting each user provided post associated with the approximately the same location identifier as post by that location.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein a following user follows the stream of posts by the location.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

applying a timeliness heuristic to the posts of the location profile.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the timeliness heuristic determines that a post should be classified as timeless when a user having a home base that is greater than a determined distance from the geographic location provided the post associated with the location profile.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the timeliness heuristic determines that a post should be classified as timeless when a user that is considered a famous user provided the post.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the timeliness heuristic determines that a post should be classified as timely when posts from a collection of users, exceeding a determined number, are received at a rate, exceeding a determined rate.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying a timeliness heuristic to the location profile.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the location associated with the location profile is considered a timeless location when a percentage, greater than a determined percentage, of the total posts in the location profile are have been determined to be timeless.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the processing the aggregated user provided posts into a location profile further comprises:

normalizing the location identifiers into locations known to a reverse geo-coding lookup service.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

providing an API configured to allow third-party access to timeliness data as determined by the timeliness heuristic applied to the posts of the location profile, wherein upon receiving a request for post timeliness data through the API timely or timeless posts associated with a location can be returned to the third-party.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing an API configured to allow third-party access to timeliness data as determined by the timeliness heuristic applied to the location profile, wherein upon receiving a request timeliness data through the API timely or timeless locations can be returned to the third-party.

13. A system comprising:

a profile aggregation module configured to aggregate user provided posts collected from a population of users at a server in a user profile database, the user provided posts including at least a location identifier and contextual data, and further configured to process the aggregated user provided posts into a location profile by grouping the user provided posts associated with approximately the same location identifier into the location profile; and

a location profile database configured to store the location profiles.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

a communications interface configured to transmit each user provided post associated with the approximately the same location identifier as post by that location.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the profile aggregation module is further configured to apply a timeliness heuristic to the posts of the location profile stored in the location profile database.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the profile aggregation module is further configured to apply a timeliness heuristic to the location profile.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the profile aggregation module is further configured to process the aggregated user provided posts into a location profile by normalizing the location identifiers into locations known to a reverse geo-coding lookup service.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

an API configured to allow third-party access to timeliness data as determined by the timeliness heuristic applied to the posts of the location profile, wherein upon receiving a request for post timeliness data through the API timely or timeless posts associated with a location can be returned to the third-party.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

an API configured to allow third-party access to timeliness data as determined by the timeliness heuristic applied to the location profile, wherein upon receiving a request timeliness data through the API timely or timeless locations can be returned to the third-party.

20. A computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon effective for causing a computer to perform a method comprising:

aggregating user provided posts collected from a population of users at a server, the user provided posts including at least a location identifier and contextual data; and

processing the aggregated user provided posts into a location profile, the processing comprising;

normalizing the location identifiers into locations known to a reverse geo-coding lookup service, and

grouping the user provided posts associated with approximately the same location known to the reverse geo-coding lookup service.