Experience sharing system and method

• US 8,903,852 B1
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Pedregal, Christopher, Tse, Alastair, LeBeau, Michael J., Cowan, Mathew
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cam-Linh
• Application Number:
  US13/363,117
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• Field of Search: 707/707, 707/722, 707/758, 707/706, 707/769
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, on the one or more computing devices, a location indication from a user concerning a chosen location for potential experiences. A time indication is received, on the one or more computing devices, from the user concerning a time frame for the potential experiences. An experiences database is queried to identify two or more experiences that may be sequentially performed within the defined time period at the chosen location. An itinerary is generated, on the one or more computing devices, for the user based, at least in part, upon the two or more experiences.

Claims

1. A method of generating an experience itinerary, executing on one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a location indication from a first user concerning a chosen location for potential experiences;

receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a time indication from the first user concerning a time frame for the potential experiences;

querying an experiences database to identify two or more experiences that may be sequentially performed within the time frame at the chosen location;

identifying, for the first user, at least one experience data card that documents at least a second user'"'"'s participation in the two or more experiences based on determining social affinity between the first user and the second user;

displaying the at least one experience data card to the first user with the two or more experiences in which the second user participated;

generating directions between the two or more experiences for the first user;

generating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the experience itinerary for the first user based, at least in part, upon the two or more experiences, wherein the experience itinerary includes a first experience to perform with a first defined time period followed by a second experience to perform with a second defined time period, wherein the first defined time period to perform the first experience and the second defined time period to perform the second experience are sequential; and

dynamically updating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the experience itinerary for the first user including modifying the directions to a same destination from a first type of direction to a second type of direction based, at least in part, upon current weather conditions.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing the experience itinerary to the first user from at least one of the one or more computing devices.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving from the first user, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, one or more of;

a theme indication concerning a desired theme for the potential experiences, and

a budget indication concerning a requested budget for the potential experiences.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein querying the experiences database includes considering one or more of:

the current weather conditions at the chosen location, and

geographic disparity between each of the two or more experiences.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the chosen location is a current location of the first user.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the chosen location is a future location selected by the first user.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising sharing the at least one experience data card with other users within a same group as the first user in a social network.

8. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by at least one of one or more computing devices, a location indication from a first user concerning a chosen location for potential experiences;

receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a time indication from the first user concerning a time frame for the potential experiences;

querying an experiences database to identify two or more experiences that may be sequentially performed within the time frame at the chosen location;

identifying, for the first user, at least one experience data card that documents at least a second user'"'"'s participation in the two or more experiences based on determining social affinity between the first user and the second user;

displaying the at least one experience data card, with the two or more experiences in which the second user participated, to the first user;

generating directions between the two or more experiences for the first user;

generating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, an experience itinerary for the first user based, at least in part, upon the two or more experiences, wherein the experience itinerary includes a first experience to perform with a first defined time period followed by a second experience to perform with a second defined time period, wherein the first defined time period to perform the first experience and the second defined time period to perform the second experience are sequential; and

dynamically updating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the experience itinerary for the first user including modifying the directions to a same destination from a first type of direction to a second type of direction based, at least in part, upon current weather conditions.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions for:

providing the experience itinerary to the first user from at least one of the one or more computing devices.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions for:

receiving from the first user, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, one or more of;

a theme indication concerning a desired theme for the potential experiences, and

a budget indication concerning a requested budget for the potential experiences.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the instructions for querying the experiences database includes instructions for considering one or more of:

the current weather conditions at the chosen location, and

geographic disparity between each of the two or more experiences.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the chosen location is a current location of the first user.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the chosen location is a future location selected by the first user.

14. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions for sharing the at least one experience data card with other users within a same group of the first user in a social network.

15. A computing system comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory architecture coupled with the at least one processor;

one or more software modules executed on the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the one or more software modules are configured to perform operations including;

receiving, by at least one of one or more computing devices, a location indication from a first user concerning a chosen location for potential experiences;

receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a time indication from the first user concerning a time frame for the potential experiences;

querying an experiences database to identify two or more experiences that may be sequentially performed within the time frame at the chosen location;

identifying, for the first user, at least one experience data card that documents at least a second user'"'"'s participation in the two or more experiences based on determining social affinity between the first user and the second user;

displaying the at least one experience data card to the first user, with the two or more experiences in which the second user participated;

generating directions between the two or more experiences for the first user;

generating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, an experience itinerary for the first user based, at least in part, upon the two or more experiences, wherein the experience itinerary includes a first experience to perform with a first defined time period followed by a second experience to perform with a second defined time period, wherein the first defined time period to perform the first experience and the second defined time period to perform the second experience are sequential; and

dynamically updating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the experience itinerary for the first user including modifying the directions to a same destination from a first type of direction to a second type of direction based, at least in part, upon current weather conditions.

16. The computing system of claim 15 further configured to perform operations comprising:

providing the experience itinerary to the first user from at least one of the one or more computing devices.

17. The computing system of claim 15 further configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving from the first user, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, one or more of;

a theme indication concerning a desired theme for the potential experiences, and

a budget indication concerning a requested budget for the potential experiences.

18. The computing system of claim 15 wherein querying the experiences database includes considering one or more of:

the current weather conditions at the chosen location, and

geographic disparity between each of the two or more experiences.

19. The computing system of claim 15 wherein the chosen location is a current location of the first user.

20. The computing system of claim 15 wherein the chosen location is a future location selected by the first user.

21. The computing system of claim 15 further configured to perform operations comprising sharing the at least one experience data card with other users within a same group of the first user in a social network.