System and method for creating and managing geofeeds

• US 9,077,782 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2013
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2013
• 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): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US14/108,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/206, 709/204, 709/207, 709/218
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

The disclosure relates to systems and methods of burning, snapshotting, streaming and curating geofeeds, each geofeed including a plurality of geofeed content items that are aggregated from a plurality of content providers using respective requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of content providers, where each individual set of a plurality of content is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. Archives of a geofeed may be generated by burning portions or all of the geofeed content items and/or generating snapshots of geofeeds at different times. A real-time geofeed may be streamed by continuously or periodically obtaining newly available geofeed content items and updated a geofeed stream in real-time. Collections of geofeed content items may be curated in order to organize and follow geofeed content items of interest.

Claims

1. A method for providing a geofeed stream, the method being implemented by a computer having one or more physical processors programmed with one or more computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer to perform the method, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computer, a request for a geofeed stream that includes geofeed content items that are relevant to one or more geographically definable locations and aggregated from at least a first one of a plurality of content providers based on a first request formatted specifically for the first one of the plurality of content providers and from at least a second one of the plurality of content providers based on a second request formatted specifically for the second one of the plurality of content providers;

obtaining, by the computer, a first geofeed content item that is available at a first time, wherein the first geofeed content item is relevant to the one or more geographically definable locations and is aggregated from the first one of the plurality of content providers;

generating, by the computer, the geofeed stream that includes the first geofeed content item as at least part of the geofeed stream;

causing, by the computer, the geofeed stream to be communicated;

obtaining, by the computer, a second geofeed content item that is available at a second time after the first time but unavailable at the first time, wherein the second geofeed content item is relevant to the one or more geographically definable locations and is aggregated from the first one of the plurality of content providers or the second one of the plurality of content providers; and

updating, by the computer, the geofeed stream based on the second geofeed content item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second geofeed content item is aggregated from the second one of the plurality of content providers different from the first one of the plurality of content providers.

3. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

generating, by the computer, the first request, the first request comprising a specification of the one or more geographically definable locations and a time since last refresh value, wherein the time since last refresh value specifies that content that was available before the time since last refresh value should not be provided.

4. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

generating, by the computer, the first request, the first request comprising a specification of the one or more geographically definable locations;

obtaining, by the computer, a first set of geofeed content items from the first one of the plurality of content providers based on first request;

generating, by the computer, the second request, the second request comprising the specification of the one or more geographically definable locations;

obtaining, by the computer, a second set of geofeed content items from the second one of the plurality of content providers based on the first request;

obtaining, by the computer, a time since last refresh value, wherein the time since last refresh value specifies that content that was available before the time since last refresh value should not be included in the geofeed stream;

filtering, by the computer, the first set of geofeed content items based on the time since last refresh value;

filtering, by the computer, the second set of geofeed content items based on the time since last refresh value; and

updating, by the computer, the geofeed stream based on the filtered first set of geofeed content items and the filtered second set of geofeed content items.

5. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

setting, by the computer, the first time to a time since last refresh value, wherein the time since last refresh value specifies that content that was available before the time since last refresh value should not be included in the geofeed stream;

obtaining, by the computer, the second geofeed content item based on the time since last refresh value.

6. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

iteratively obtaining, by the computer, additional geofeed content items at intervals from the plurality of content providers; and

updating, by the computer, the geofeed stream based on the additional geofeed content items.

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

filtering, by the computer, the additional geofeed content items based on at least a first geofeed stream preference used to filter in or out content from the additional geofeed content items for inclusion in the geofeed stream.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the geofeed stream and the updated geofeed stream share at least one geofeed content item in common.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the geofeed stream and the updated geofeed stream include different geofeed content items.

10. A method of burning a geofeed, the method being implemented on a computer having one or more physical processors programmed with one or more computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, program the computer to perform the method, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computer, a request to burn a geofeed, the geofeed comprising a plurality of geofeed content items that are relevant to one or more geographically definable locations and aggregated from a plurality of content providers based on requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of content providers;

obtaining, by the computer, at least a first one of the plurality of geofeed content items, wherein the first geofeed content item that is relevant to the one or more geographically definable locations;

causing, by the computer, one or more aspects of the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items to be stored in a memory in response to the request to burn the geofeed; and

causing, by the computer, the one or more aspects of the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items to be provided from the memory.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more aspects comprise the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items or information that describes the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more aspects comprises one or more links to other content included in the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items, the method further comprising:

parsing, by the computer, the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items;

obtaining, by the computer, the one or more links to other content based on the parse;

causing, by the computer, the one or more links to be stored in the memory; and

causing, by the computer, the one or more links to be provided from the memory.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more aspects comprise raw content from the first one of the plurality of content providers that provided the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprising:

obtaining, by the computer, one or more burn parameters that specify the one or more aspects to be stored when the geofeed is burned; and

causing, by the computer, the one or more aspects of the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items to be stored in the memory based on the one or more burn parameters.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprising:

receiving, by the computer, a request to access at least a portion of the geofeed;

causing, by the computer, the one or more aspects of the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items to be provided based on the request for the geofeed.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprising:

receiving, by the computer, a request to access at least a portion of a second geofeed that is related to a second one more geographically definable locations that is at least partially coextensive with the one or more geographically definable locations; and

causing, by the computer, the one or more aspects of the first one of the plurality of geofeed content items to be provided based on the request for the second geofeed.

17. A method of curating geofeed content into one or more collections, the method being implemented by a computer having one or more physical processors programmed with one or more computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer to perform the method, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computer, a first collection identifier to be associated with a first geofeed content item of a first geofeed and a geofeed content item of the first geofeed, wherein the first geofeed includes a plurality of geofeed content items are relevant to one or more geographically definable locations and aggregated from a plurality of content providers based on requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of content providers;

storing, by the computer, an association of the first collection identifier with the first geofeed content item and an association of the first collection identifier with the second geofeed content item;

receiving, by the computer, a request for a first collection identified by the first collection identifier;

obtaining, by the computer, the first geofeed content item and the second geofeed content item based on the request for the first collection; and

causing, by the computer, the first geofeed content item and the second geofeed content item to be provided based on the first collection identified by the first collection identifier.

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

receiving, by the computer, a second collection identifier to be associated with a third geofeed content item of the first geofeed;

storing, by the computer, an association of the second collection identifier with the third geofeed content item;

receiving, by the computer, a request for a second collection identified by the second collection identifier;

obtaining, by the computer, the third geofeed content item based on the request for the second collection; and

causing, by the computer, the third geofeed content item to be provided based on the second collection identified by the second collection identifier.

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

receiving, by the computer, the first collection identifier to be associated with a fourth geofeed content item of a second geofeed, wherein the second geofeed includes a plurality of geofeed content items are relevant to one or more second geographically definable locations that are different from the one or more geographically definable locations and aggregated from the plurality of content providers based on the requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of content providers;

storing, by the computer, an association of the first collection identifier with the fourth geofeed content item of the second geofeed;

obtaining, by the computer, the fourth geofeed content item; and

causing, by the computer, the fourth geofeed content item to be provided based on the first collection identified by the first collection identifier.

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

obtaining, by the computer, the first geofeed content item locally.

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

generating, by the computer, a request formatted specifically for a first one of the plurality of content providers that provided the first geofeed content item; and

obtaining, by the computer, the first geofeed content item from the first one of the plurality of content providers.

22. A method of generating snapshots of social media content items that are relevant to a geographically definable location, the method being implemented by a computer having one or more physical processors programmed by one or more computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, program the computer to perform the method, the method comprising:

generating, by the computer, a first request that specifies the geographically definable location in a first format used by a first social media content provider;

communicating, by the computer, the first request to the first social media content provider in relation to a first time;

obtaining, by the computer, at least a first social media content item from the first social media content provider, wherein the first social media content item is based on the first request communicated in relation to the first time;

generating, by the computer, a second request that specifies the geographically definable location in a first format used by a first social media content provider;

communicating, by the computer, the second request to the second social media content provider in relation to the first time;

obtaining, by the computer, at least a second social media content item from the second social media content provider based on the second request, wherein the second social media content item is based on the second request communicated in relation to the first time;

storing, by the computer, in a memory, a first snapshot in association with the first time, wherein the first snapshot includes the first social media content item and the second social media content item;

communicating, by the computer, the first request to the first social media content provider in relation to a second time after the first time;

obtaining, by the computer, at least a third social media content item from the first social media content provider, wherein the third social media content item is based on the first request communicated in relation to the second time;

communicating, by the computer, the second request to the second social media content provider in relation to the second time;

obtaining, by the computer, at least a fourth social media content item from the second social media content provider based on the second request, wherein the fourth social media content item is based on the second request communicated in relation to the second time;

storing, by the computer, in the memory, a second snapshot in association with the second time, wherein the second snapshot includes the third social media content item and the fourth social media content item.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the first time and the second time is separated by a predefined time interval such that the second snapshot is generated after the first snapshot based on the predefined time interval.