Systems and method for generating three-dimensional geofeeds, orientation-based geofeeds, and geofeeds based on ambient conditions based on content provided by social media content providers

• US 8,849,935 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tai Technologies Inc. (Crisis24)
• Original Assignee: Geofeedia, Inc.
• Inventors: Harris, Philip B., Mitchell, Scott K., Mulroy, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): BAROT, BHARAT
• Application Number:
  US13/843,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20140280569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 709202-207, 709217-219
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A system and method for generating a geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters including altitude parameters, ambient condition parameters, and orientation parameters is provided. A geofeed includes a collection of content, aggregated from various content providers, that is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. The generated content may include, for example, video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks, and/or other content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The content providers may include, for example, social media platforms, online knowledge databases, individual content creators, and/or other providers that can distribute content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The system may filter content into the geofeed and/or out of the geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters and/or display the geofeed comprising the filtered content.

Claims

1. A method for generating a geofeed based on one or more altitude parameters, the method being implemented in a computer that includes one or more processors programmed by computer program instructions, the method comprising:

obtaining, by one or more processors programmed by computer program instructions, content that is aggregated from a plurality of social media content providers based on one or more geographically definable locations, the content being provided by the plurality of social media content providers based on respective requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of social media content providers, wherein the respective requests comprise a first request in a first format accepted by a first social media content provider and a second request in a second format accepted by a second social media content provider, the first format being different than the second format, the content includes first content from the first social media provider and second content from the second social media content provider, and wherein the respective requests comprise the one or more geographically definable locations;

identifying, by the one or more processors, the one or more altitude parameters used to filter the content based on an altitude at which the content was created;

determining, by the one or more processors, one or more altitude attributes that indicate the altitude at which the content was created;

causing, by the one or more processors, the content to be filtered in or out based on the one or more altitude parameters and the one or more altitude attributes; and

communicating, by the one or more processors, the filtered content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more altitude parameters are obtained based on a request for the content from a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more altitude attributes related to the first content are determined by the first content provider such that the first content is associated with the one or more altitude attributes when received from the first content provider.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are generated by a barometric pressure sensor of a device, wherein the device is used to create the first content.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are generated by a content creator who created the first content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more altitude attributes related to the first content are not provided by the first content provider, the method further comprising:

automatically determining, by the one or more processors, the one or more altitude attributes related to the content after the content is received from the first content provider.

7. The method of claim 6, the method further comprising:

generating, by the one or more processors, a correlation between the first content and other content that is associated with one or more altitude attributes, wherein the other content is known to be created at an altitude indicated by the one or more altitude attributes; and

wherein the one or more altitude attributes are automatically determined based on the correlation.

8. The method of claim 6, the method further comprising:

identifying, by the one or more processors, address information related to the first content, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are automatically determined based on the address information.

20. The method of claim 7, wherein the first content was created by a content creator and the other content was created by the content creator at a different time such that the first content does not include the one or more altitude attributes and the other content does include the one or more altitude attributes.

21. The method of claim 8, the method further comprising:

determining, by the one or more processors, based on the address information, a floor level from which the first content was created, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are automatically determined based on the determined floor level.

9. A system for generating a geofeed based on one or more altitude parameters, the system comprising:

one or more processors programmed by computer program instructions to;

obtain content associated with the geofeed, the content aggregated from a plurality of social media content providers based on one or more geographically definable locations, the content being provided by the plurality of social media content providers based on respective requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of social media content providers, wherein the respective requests comprise a first request in a first format accepted by a first social media content provider and a second request in a second format accepted by a second social media content provider, the first format being different than the second format, and wherein the respective requests comprise the one or more geographically definable locations;

identify the one or more altitude parameters used to filter the content based on an altitude at which the content was created;

determine one or more altitude attributes that indicate an altitude at which the content was created;

cause the content to be filtered in or out based on the one or more altitude parameters and the one or more altitude attributes; and

communicate the filtered content.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more altitude parameters are obtained based on a request for the content from a user.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more altitude attributes related to the first content are determined by the first content provider such that the first content is associated with the one or more altitude attributes when received from the first content provider.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are generated by a barometric pressure sensor of a device, wherein the device is used to create the first content.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are generated by a content creator who created the first content.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more altitude attributes related to the content are not provided by the first content provider, the one or more processors further programmed to:

automatically determine the one or more altitude attributes related to the content after the first content is received from the first content provider.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed to:

generate a correlation between the first content and other content that is associated with one or more altitude attributes, wherein the other content is known to be created at an altitude indicated by the one or more altitude attributes; and

wherein the one or more altitude attributes are automatically determined based on the correlation.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed to:

identify address information related to the first content, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are automatically determined based on the address information.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein the first content was created by a content creator and the other content was created by the content creator at a different time such that the first content does not include the one or more altitude attributes and the other content does include the one or more altitude attributes.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed to:

determine, based on the address information, a floor level from which the first content was created, wherein the one or more altitude attributes are automatically determined based on the determined floor level.

17. A method for generating a geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters, the method being implemented in a computer that includes one or more processors configured to execute one or more processors programmed by computer program instructions, the method comprising:

obtaining, by one or more processors programmed by computer program instructions, content associated with the geofeed, the content aggregated from a plurality of social media content providers based on one or more geographically definable locations, the content being provided by the plurality of social media content providers based on respective requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of social media content providers, wherein the respective requests comprise a first request in a first format accepted by a first social media content provider and a second request in a second format accepted by a second social media content provider, the first format being different than the second format, and wherein the respective requests comprise the one or more geographically definable locations;

obtaining, by the one or more processors, the one or more geofeed parameters, wherein the one or more geofeed parameters comprise;

(i) one or more ambient condition parameters used to filter the content based on an ambient condition that existed at the time that the content was created, or (ii) one or more orientation parameters used to filter the content based on an orientation of a device used to create the content; and

communicating, by the one or more processors, the content that is filtered in or out based on the one or more geofeed parameters.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the method further comprising:

identifying, by one or more processors, the one or more ambient condition parameters;

determining, by the one or more processors, one or more ambient condition attributes that indicate the ambient condition that existed at the time that the was created; and

causing, by the one or more processors, the content to be filtered in or out based on the one or more ambient condition parameters and the one or more ambient condition attributes.

19. The method of claim 17, the method further comprising:

identifying, by one or more processors, the one or more orientation parameters;

determining, by the one or more processors, one or more orientation attributes that indicate the orientation of the device that created the content; and

causing, by the one or more processors, the content to be filtered in or out based on the one or more orientation parameters and the one or more orientation attributes.

24. The method of claim 18, wherein the first content comprises content that was created when a first ambient condition existed and content that was created when a second ambient condition different than the first ambient condition existed, the method further comprising:

displaying, by the one or more processors, the content that was created when the first ambient condition existed differently than the content that was created when the second ambient condition existed.

25. The method of claim 18, wherein the one or more ambient attributes related to the first content are not provided by the first content provider, the method further comprising:

automatically determining, by the one or more processors, the one or more ambient condition attributes after the first content is received from the first content provider.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein automatically determining the one or more ambient condition attributes comprises:

identifying, by the one or more processors, a date and/or time when the first content was created;

identifying, by the one or more processors, a geo-location where the first content was created; and

determining, by the one or more processors, an ambient condition that existed at the identified geo-location during the identified date and/or time.

27. The method of claim 19, wherein the one or more orientation attributes related to the first content are not provided by the first content provider, the method further comprising:

automatically determining, by the one or more processors, the one or more orientation attributes after the first content is received from the first content provider.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the first content comprises an image, and wherein automatically determining the one or more orientation attributes comprises:

recognizing, by the one or more processors, a landmark captured on the image; and

determining, by the one or more processors, that the image was taken while facing the landmark based on the landmark recognition.

29. The method of claim 19, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the one or more processors, a current orientation of a user;

receiving, by the one or more processors, a current geo-location of the user;

identifying, by the one or more processors, a set of content that was created within a proximity of the current geo-location of the user, wherein the set of content includes content created with the same orientation as the current orientation of the user and/or different orientation than the current orientation;

providing, by the one or more processors, the set of content to the user.

30. The method of claim 29, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the one or more processors, from the user, a selection of a given orientation different than the current orientation; and

providing, by the one or more processors, at least one of the set of content that corresponds to the given orientation.