Methods and systems of aggregating information of geographic context regions of social networks based on geographical locations via a network

• US 9,477,991 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Snap Trends, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap Trends, Inc.
• Inventors: Burris, Brandon C., Harvell, Sean
• Primary Examiner(s): Reyes, Mariela
• Assistant Examiner(s): Davanlou, Soheila
• Application Number:
  US14/011,513
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can apply searches and/or filters to data of social networks with respect to one or more geographical search regions that intersect respective one or more geographical context regions. One or more social networks can be queried with search and/or filter parameters and one or more geographical context regions, and results received from the social network(s) can be based on the search and/or filter parameter(s) and the geographical context region(s) and presented to a user on a map or other user interface. One or more queries can be saved with their identification(s) of geographical context region(s) and their search and/or filter parameter(s) (e.g. saved queries) can continue to run and/or execute over one or more periods of time transpiring to provide continual and/or periodic reporting.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a network interface, coupled to the processor and configured to be coupled to a network; and

a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device stores instructions that are executed by the processor, wherein the system;

receives, from a computing device, via the network interface and the network, a first query of at least one social network media data source indicating search data and a first geographical search region, wherein the at least one social network media data source stores user-provided data from a plurality of users provided via a plurality of computing devices associated with at least the first geographical search region;

determines the first geographical search region covers a first geographical area and at least a first portion of a geographic context region intersecting the first geographical search region, wherein a first location within the geographic context region is not within the first geographical search region and wherein first social media results of the at least one social network media data source in response to the first query will not include one or more second social media results associated with one or more second locations within both the first portion of the geographic context region and the first geographical search region, at least because the one or more second locations are associated with the geographic context region and the first location is not within the first geographical search region;

in response to determining the first geographical search region covers the first geographical area and the at least a first portion of the geographic context region intersecting the first geographical search region, generates at least a second query of the at least one social network media data source indicating the search data and a second geographical search region covering a second geographical area including at least a second portion of the geographic context region including the first location and the one or more second locations within the geographic context region;

provides, via the network interface and the network, the at least the second query to the at least one social network media data source;

receives, from the at least one social network media data source via the network interface and the network, at least one result based on the at least the second query and based on the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source, wherein the at least one result includes the one or more second social media results associated with the one or more second locations within the geographic context region and the first geographical search region; and

provides the at least one result to the computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising expands the first geographical search region to the second geographical search region to determine if one or more geographic context regions intersect the first geographical search region, wherein the second geographical search region covers more geographical area then the first geographical search region, and generates at least the second query in response to determining the geographic context region intersects the first geographical search region.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein when the system expands the first geographical search region, the system expands a plurality of supported geographical search region shapes, of the at least one social network media data source, based on the first geographical search region.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein when the system generates the at least the second query that includes the at least one identification of the geographic context region and that is based on the search data and the at least one social network media data source, the system transforms the first query in accordance with at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source such that the at least the second query is supported as a query of the at least one social network media data source.

5. The system of claim 1,

wherein the at least the second query includes at least one of a word, a plurality of words, a phrase, a user profile, a portion of a user profile, a regular expression, a natural language filter, a grammar, a social group, an organization, and a user identification;

wherein at least a portion of the user-provided data from the plurality of users corresponds to the at least one result and at least one of the word, the plurality of words, the phrase, the user profile, the portion of the user profile, the regular expression, the natural language filter, the grammar, the social group, the organization, and the user identification; and

wherein the at least one result is based on the at least the portion of the user-provided data from the plurality of users that corresponds to the at least one result and the at least one of the word, the plurality of words, the phrase, the user profile, the portion of the user profile, the regular expression, the natural language filter, the grammar, the social group, the organization, and the user identification.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the user-provided data includes at least one post to at least one social network service.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the grammar includes at least one of a set of formation rules for strings in a language, a context-free grammar, a regular grammar, a tree-adjoining grammar, an affix grammar, an attribute grammar, an adaptive grammar, an ambiguous grammar, and a categorical grammar.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the user profile includes at least one of a user name, the user identification, a mobile telephone number, an email address, a physical address, an occupation, a gender, a marital status, a past purchase, an interest, a past transaction, a shoe size, an age, a clothing size, a political affiliation, a monthly income, a yearly income, an employment status, a credit history, a credit rating, an eye color, a hair color, a music genre, and a membership.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the user-provided data from the plurality of users includes social network user-provided content.

10. The system of claim 1,

wherein the first geographical search region includes a first unsupported geographical search region shape;

and

wherein the system generates the at least the second query such that a plurality of geographical search region shapes that are supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source and that include the first unsupported geographical search region shape.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the system generates the at least the second query such that the plurality of geographical search region shapes, supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source, include an expansion of the first unsupported geographical search region shape.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein when the system receives, from the at least one social network media data source via the network interface and the network, the at least one result, the system receives a plurality of results that are based on the at least the second query and the plurality of geographical search region shapes, supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source, that include the expansion of the first unsupported geographical search region shape, wherein the plurality of results include the at least one result.

13. The system of claim 12,

wherein a first result of the plurality of results is a duplicate result of a second result of the plurality of results;

and

wherein the system further eliminates the duplicate result.

14. The system of claim 1,

provides, via the network interface and the network, the first query to the at least one social network media data source.

15. The system of claim 14,

wherein the at least one result includes at least one location of the geographic context region;

and

wherein the system further provides the at least one location of the geographic context region to the user via the map.

16. The system of claim 14,

wherein the second geographical area includes at least the first portion of the geographic context region and the second portion of the geographic context region.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further provides a map to a user, wherein the map indicates at least one location of the geographic context region that corresponds to the at least one result based on the at least one query and based on location-based data stored via the at least one social network media data source.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source includes user-provided data stored via at least one of FACEBOOK social network media data source, TWITTER social network media data source, YOUTUBE social network media data source, WEIBO social network media data source, a blog, a wiki, FOURSQUARE social network media data source, INSTAGRAM social network media data source, FLICKR social network media data source, VIMEO social network media data source, and YELP social network media data source.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one identification of the geographic context region is determined via a communication system operated by a network provider and utilized by at least one of the plurality of computing devices.

20. The system of claim 19,

wherein the communication system includes at least one of a wireless access point and a wired access point;

and

wherein the at least one identification of the geographic context region is determined via a location of the at least one of the wireless access point and the wired access point.

21. The system of claim 19,

wherein the at least one of the plurality of computing devices utilizes a network address associated with the communication system;

and

wherein the network address is associated with the at least one identification of the geographic context region.

22. The system of claim 1,

wherein a location included within the geographic context region is determined via a position device of at least one of the plurality of computing devices;

and

wherein the user-provided data from the plurality of users provided via the plurality of computing devices includes the location included within the geographic context region.

23. The system of claim 1,

wherein the geographic context region is associated with a geometric center and the first location is associated with the geometric center of the geographic context region.

24. The system of claim 1,

wherein the system is coupled to a storage;

and

wherein the system further;

stores the at least the second query in the storage;

after an amount of time transpires, retrieves the at least the second query from the storage;

provides, via the network, the at least the second query from the storage to the at least one social network media data source;

receives, from the at least one social network media data source via the network, at least a second result based on the at least the second query from storage and based on the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source; and

provides the at least the second result to the computing device.

25. The system of claim 24,

wherein when the system stores the at least the second query in the storage, the system stores the at least the second query in the storage via the network;

and

wherein when the system retrieves the at least the second query from the storage, the system retrieves the at least the second query from the storage via the network.

26. The system of claim 1, wherein the geographic context region includes at least one of a voting district, a congressional district, a school district, a school, a campus, a dormitory, an oil pipeline, a sports complex, a police precinct, a piece of real estate, a neighborhood, a borrow, a city, a town, a commercial office building, a floor of a building, a factory, a refinery, a storage facility, a power station, a power substation, a military installation, and a census designated place.

27. A non-transitory computer readable memory device, comprising instructions that are executable by a processor of a computer system, wherein as the instructions executed by the processor, the computer system:

receives, from a computing device, via the network interface and the network, a first query of at least one social network media data source indicating search data and a first geographical search region, wherein the at least one social network media data source stores user-provided data from a plurality of users provided via a plurality of computing devices associated with at least the first geographical search region;

determines the first geographical search region covers a first geographical area and at least a first portion of a geographic context region intersecting the first geographical search region, wherein a first location within the geographic context region is not within the first geographical search region and wherein first social media results of the at least one social network media data source in response to the first query will not include one or more second social media results associated with one or more second locations within both the first portion of the geographic context region and the first geographical search region, at least because the one or more second locations are associated with the geographic context region and the first location is not within the first geographical search region;

in response to determining the first geographical search region covers the first geographical area and the at least a first portion of the geographic context region intersecting the first geographical search region, generates at least a second query of the at least one social network media data source indicating the search data and a second geographical search region covering a second geographical area including at least a second portion of the geographic context region including the first location and the one or more second locations within the geographic context region;

provides, via the network interface and the network, the at least the second query to the at least one social network media data source;

receives, from the at least one social network media data source via the network interface and the network, at least one result based on the at least the second query and based on the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source, wherein the at least one result includes the one or more second social media results associated with the one or more second locations within the geographic context region and the first geographical search region; and

provides the at least one result to the computing device.

28. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, further comprising expands the first geographical search region to the second geographical search region to determine if one or more geographic context regions intersect the first geographical search region, wherein the second geographical search region covers more geographical area then the first geographical search region, and generates at least the second query in response to determining the geographic context region intersects the first geographical search region.

29. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 28, wherein when the computer system expands the first geographical search region, the computer system expands a plurality of supported geographical search region shapes, of the at least one social network media data source, based on the first geographical search region.

30. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, wherein when the computer system generates the at least the second query that includes the at least one identification of the geographic context region and that is based on the search data and the at least one social network media data source, the computer system transforms the first query in accordance with at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source such that the at least the second query is supported as a query of the at least one social network media data source.

31. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, wherein the second query includes at least one of a word, a plurality of words, a phrase, a user profile, a portion of a user profile, a regular expression, a natural language filter, a grammar, a social group, an organization, and a user identification;

wherein at least a portion of the user-provided data from the plurality of users corresponds to the at least one result and at least one of the word, the plurality of words, the phrase, the user profile, the portion of the user profile, the regular expression, the natural language filter, the grammar, the social group, the organization, and the user identification; and

wherein the at least one result is based on the at least the portion of the user-provided data from the plurality of users that corresponds to the at least one result and the at least one of the word, the plurality of words, the phrase, the user profile, the portion of the user profile, the regular expression, the natural language filter, the grammar, the social group, the organization, and the user identification.

32. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 31, wherein the user-provided data includes at least one post to at least one social network service.

33. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 31, wherein the grammar includes at least one of a set of formation rules for strings in a language, a context-free grammar, a regular grammar, a tree-adjoining grammar, an affix grammar, an attribute grammar, an adaptive grammar, an ambiguous grammar, and a categorical grammar.

34. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 31, wherein the user profile includes at least one of a user name, the user identification, a mobile telephone number, an email address, a physical address, an occupation, a gender, a marital status, a past purchase, an interest, a past transaction, a shoe size, an age, a clothing size, a political affiliation, a monthly income, a yearly income, an employment status, a credit history, a credit rating, an eye color, a hair color, a music genre, and a membership.

35. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 31, wherein the user-provided data from the plurality of users includes social network user-provided content.

36. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27,

wherein the first geographical search region includes a first unsupported geographical search region shape;

and

wherein the computer system generates the at least the second query such that a plurality of geographical search region shapes that are supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source and that include the first unsupported geographical search region shape.

37. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 36, wherein the computer system generates the at least the second query such that the plurality of geographical search region shapes, supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source, include an expansion of the first unsupported geographical search region shape.

38. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 37, wherein when the computer system receives, from the at least one social network media data source via the network interface and the network, the at least one result based on the search data that is based on the at least the second query, the computer system receives a plurality of results that are based on the second query and the plurality of geographical search region shapes, supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source, that include the expansion of the first unsupported geographical search region shape, wherein the plurality of results include the at least one result.

39. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 36, wherein a first result of the plurality of results is a duplicate result of a second result of the plurality of results;

and

wherein the computer system further eliminates the duplicate result.

40. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27,

provides, via the network interface and the network, the first query to the at least one social network media data source.

41. The computer readable memory device of claim 40,

wherein the at least one result includes at least one location of the geographic context region;

and

wherein the computer system further provides the at least one location of the geographic context region to the user via the map.

42. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 40,

wherein the second geographical area includes at least the first portion of the geographic context region and the second portion of the geographic context region.

43. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, wherein the computer system further provides a map to a user, wherein the map indicates at least one location of the geographic context region that corresponds to the at least one result based on the at least one query and based on location-based data stored via the at least one social network media data source.

44. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, wherein the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source includes user-provided data stored via at least one of FACEBOOK social network media data source, TWITTER social network media data source, YOUTUBE social network media data source, WEIBO social network media data source, a blog, a wiki, FOURSQUARE social network media data source, INSTAGRAM social network media data source, FLICKR social network media data source, VIMEO social network media data source, and YELP social network media data source.

45. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, wherein the at least one identification of the geographic context region is determined via a communication system operated by a network provider and utilized by at least one of the plurality of computing devices.

46. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 45, wherein the communication system includes at least one of a wireless access point and a wired access point;

and

wherein the at least one identification of the geographic context region is determined via a location of the at least one of the wireless access point and the wired access point.

47. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 45,

wherein the at least one of the plurality of computing devices utilizes a network address associated with the communication system;

and

wherein the network address is associated with the at least one identification of the geographic context region.

48. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27,

wherein a location included within the geographic context region is determined via a position device of at least one of the plurality of computing devices;

and

wherein the user-provided data from the plurality of users provided via the plurality of computing devices includes the location included within the geographic context region.

49. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27,

wherein the geographic context region is associated with a geometric center and the first location is associated with the geometric center of the geographic context region.

50. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27,

wherein the computer system is coupled to a storage;

and

wherein the computer system further;

stores the at least the second query in the storage;

after an amount of time transpires, retrieves the at least the second query from the storage;

provides, via the network, the at least the second query from the storage to the at least one social network media data source;

receives, from the at least one social network media data source via the network, at least a second result based on the at least the second query from storage and based on the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source; and

provides the at least the second result to the computing device.

51. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 50,

wherein when the computer system stores the at least the second query in the storage, the computer system stores the at least the second query in the storage via the network;

and

wherein when the computer system retrieves the at least the second query from the storage, the computer system retrieves the at least the second query from the storage via the network.

52. The non-transitory computer readable memory device of claim 27, wherein the geographic context region includes at least one of a voting district, a congressional district, a school district, a school, a campus, a dormitory, an oil pipeline, a sports complex, a police precinct, a piece of real estate, a neighborhood, a borrow, a city, a town, a commercial office building, a floor of a building, a factory, a refinery, a storage facility, a power station, a power substation, a military installation, and a census designated place.

53. A method, comprising:

receiving, from a computing device, via the network interface and the network, a first query of at least one social network media data source indicating search data and a first geographical search region, wherein the at least one social network media data source stores user-provided data from a plurality of users provided via a plurality of computing devices associated with at least the first geographical search region;

determining the first geographical search region covers a first geographical area and at least a first portion of a geographic context region intersecting the first geographical search region, wherein a first location within the geographic context region is not within the first geographical search region and wherein first social media results of the at least one social network media data source in response to the first query will not include one or more second social media results associated with one or more second locations within both the first portion of the geographic context region and the first geographical search region, at least because the one or more second locations are associated with the geographic context region and the first location is not within the first geographical search region;

in response to determining the first geographical search region covers the first geographical area and the at least a first portion of the geographic context region intersecting the first geographical search region, generates at least a second query of the at least one social network media data source indicating the search data and a second geographical search region covering a second geographical area including at least a second portion of the geographic context region including the first location and the one or more second locations within the geographic context region;

providing, via the network interface and the network, the at least the second query to the at least one social network media data source;

receiving, from the at least one social network media data source via the network interface and the network, at least one result based on the at least the second query and based on the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source, wherein the at least one result includes the one or more second social media results associated with the one or more second locations within the geographic context region and the first geographical search region; and

providing the at least one result to the computing device.

54. The method of claim 53, further comprising:

further comprising expanding the first geographical search region to the second geographical search region to determine if one or more geographic context regions intersect the first geographical search region, wherein the second geographical search region covers more geographical area then the first geographical search region, and generates at least the second query in response to determining the geographic context region intersects the first geographical search region.

55. The method of claim 54, wherein expanding the first geographical search region includes expanding a plurality of supported geographical search region shapes, of the at least one social network media data source, based on the first geographical search region.

56. The method of claim 53, wherein generating the at least the second query that includes the at least one identification of the geographic context region and that is based on the search data and the at least one social network media data source includes transforming the first query in accordance with at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source such that the at least the second query is supported as a query of the at least one social network media data source.

57. The method of claim 53,

wherein the at least the second query includes at least one of a word, a plurality of words, a phrase, a user profile, a portion of a user profile, a regular expression, a natural language filter, a grammar, a social group, an organization, and a user identification;

wherein at least a portion of the user-provided data from the plurality of users corresponds to the at least one result and at least one of the word, the plurality of words, the phrase, the user profile, the portion of the user profile, the regular expression, the natural language filter, the grammar, the social group, the organization, and the user identification; and

wherein the at least one result is based on the at least the portion of the user-provided data from the plurality of users that corresponds to the at least one result and the at least one of the word, the plurality of words, the phrase, the user profile, the portion of the user profile, the regular expression, the natural language filter, the grammar, the social group, the organization, and the user identification.

58. The method of claim 57, wherein the user-provided data includes at least one post to at least one social network service.

59. The method of claim 57, wherein the grammar includes at least one of a set of formation rules for strings in a language, a context-free grammar, a regular grammar, a tree-adjoining grammar, an affix grammar, an attribute grammar, an adaptive grammar, an ambiguous grammar, and a categorical grammar.

60. The method of claim 57, wherein the user profile includes at least one of a user name, the user identification, a mobile telephone number, an email address, a physical address, an occupation, a gender, a marital status, a past purchase, an interest, a past transaction, a shoe size, an age, a clothing size, a political affiliation, a monthly income, a yearly income, an employment status, a credit history, a credit rating, an eye color, a hair color, a music genre, and a membership.

61. The method of claim 57, wherein the user-provided data from the plurality of users includes social network user-provided content.

62. The method of claim 57,

wherein the first geographical search region includes a first unsupported geographical search region shape;

wherein generating the at least the second query includes generating the at least the second query such that a plurality of geographical search region shapes that are supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source and that include the first unsupported geographical search region shape.

63. The method of claim 62, wherein generating the at least the second query includes generating the at least the second query such that the plurality of geographical search region shapes, supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source, include an expansion of the first unsupported geographical search region shape.

64. The method of claim 63, wherein receiving, from the at least one social network media data source via the network interface and the network, the at least one result includes receiving a plurality of results that are based on the at least the second query and the plurality of geographical search region shapes, supported by the at least one interface of the at least one social network media data source, that include the expansion of the first unsupported geographical search region shape, wherein the plurality of results include the at least one result.

65. The method of claim 64, wherein a first result of the plurality of results is a duplicate result of a second result of the plurality of results;

the method further comprising;

eliminating the duplicate result.

66. The method of claim 53, further comprising:

providing, via the network interface and the network, the first query to the at least one social network media data source.

67. The method of claim 66, wherein the at least one result includes at least one location of the geographic context region;

the method further comprising;

providing the at least one location of the geographic context region to the user via the map.

68. The method of claim 56, wherein the second geographical area includes at least the first portion of the geographic context region and the second portion of the geographic context region.

69. The method of claim 53, further comprising:

providing a map to a user, wherein the map indicates at least one location of the geographic context region that corresponds to the at least one result based on the at least one query and based on location-based data stored via the at least one social network media data source.

70. The method of claim 53, wherein the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source includes user-provided data stored via at least one of FACEBOOK social network media data source, TWITTER social network media data source, YOUTUBE social network media data source, WEIBO social network media data source, a blog, a wiki, FOURSQUARE social network media data source, INSTAGRAM social network media data source, FLICKR social network media data source, VIMEO social network media data source, and YELP social network media data source.

71. The method of claim 53, wherein the at least one identification of the geographic context region is determined via a communication system operated by a network provider and utilized by at least one of the plurality of computing devices.

72. The method of claim 71,

wherein the communication system includes at least one of a wireless access point and a wired access point;

and

wherein the at least one identification of the geographic context region is determined via a location of the at least one of the wireless access point and the wired access point.

73. The method of claim 71,

wherein the at least one of the plurality of computing devices utilizes a network address associated with the communication system;

and

wherein the network address is associated with the at least one identification of the geographic context region.

74. The method of claim 53,

wherein a location included within the geographic context region is determined via a position device of at least one of the plurality of computing devices;

and

wherein the user-provided data from the plurality of users provided via the plurality of computing devices includes the location included within the geographic context region.

75. The method of claim 53,

wherein the geographic context region is associated with a geometric center and the first location is associated with the geometric center of the geographic context region.

76. The method of claim 53, further comprising:

storing the at least the second query in the storage;

after an amount of time transpires, retrieves the at least the second query from the storage;

providing, via the network, the at least the second query from the storage to the at least one social network media data source;

receiving, from the at least one social network media data source via the network, at least a second result based on the at least the second query from storage and based on the user-provided data stored via the at least one social network media data source; and

providing the at least the second result to the computing device.

77. The method of claim 76,

wherein storing the at least the second query in the storage includes storing the at least the second query in the storage via the network;

and

wherein retrieving the at least the second query from the storage includes retrieving the at least the second query from the storage via the network.

78. The method of claim 53, wherein the geographic context region includes at least one of a voting district, a congressional district, a school district, a school, a campus, a dormitory, an oil pipeline, a sports complex, a police precinct, a piece of real estate, a neighborhood, a borrow, a city, a town, a commercial office building, a floor of a building, a factory, a refinery, a storage facility, a power station, a power substation, a military installation, and a census designated place.